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Doctors at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) have laid down their tools with immediate effect over non-payment of their car maintenance allowance and 13th month allowance. The strike action follows the failure of the hospital’s management and the Ministry of Health to settle the allowances which were part of …

The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu has asked doctors of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in the Ashanti Region to forgo their 13th-month salary for 2020 and 2021 as he promises the government will pay that of this year due to financial constraints. Executives of the Ghana Medical Association(GMA) who …

• Some 400 Ghanaian doctors trained outside are unable to practice • Six months after writing a government exam, results are yet to be released • A former deputy Health Minister has promised to follow up on the matter  About 400 foreign trained doctors have been left stranded for the …

  Three staff members from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) have been killed in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the aid organization said Friday. A Spanish emergency coordinator and two Ethiopian workers were found dead near their vehicle on Friday, a day after contact to the group was lost. The circumstances of the …

Two fake doctors have been arrested. iStock Two people were arrested by KwaZulu-Natal police for masquerading as doctors and selling fake medical certificates for R50 each. KZN police spokesperson Thembeka Mbhele said the pair will appear in the Ntuzuma Magistrate’s Court on Monday on charges of fraud. They were arrested …

Doctors in India are warning against the practice of using cow dung in the belief it will ward off COVID-19, saying there is no scientific evidence for its effectiveness and that it risks spreading other diseases. The coronavirus pandemic has wrought devastation on India, with 22.66 million cases and 246,116 …

Recruitment of medical doctors and dentists who have completed their house jobs into the Ministry of Health, will commence on Tuesday, 9 February 2021. This was announced by the Ministry in a statement issued by its Acting Chief Director, Kwabena Boadu Oku-Afari on behalf of the Minister. The statement informed …

Resident doctors in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, will begin an “indefinite” strike on Tuesday morning over non-payment of what they term as “Covid-19 hazard and inducement allowance” since April. The Association of Resident Doctors said the authorities had failed to fulfil pledges to pay its members who are working in coronavirus …

  The Director of the Ghana Institute of Languages, Dr Emmanuel Kuti has got emotions running high after he took to Facebook to share a story about how some nurses and a doctor at the Ridge Hospital made a mockery of his dying wife after she had been prescribed with …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called on medical doctors in Ghana who are at the heart of the nation’s fight against COVID-19, to stand up for Ghanaians in this critical health situation the world finds itself. The President made the call when he met with the leadership of the Ghana Medical …