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Professor Fiifi Ofori-Acquah, Director of the Ghanaian Genome (GhGenome) project, has called on the Government to institute a national programme where every baby born in the country is screened for sickle cell diseases. He said, “The reason we advocate screening of newborns for sickle cell is once you have been …

Doris Benjamin, a sickle cell patient and advocate, has recounted how her pain and that of her three other siblings weren’t taken serious by relatives. This, according to her, led to the death of her elder sister, Elle, who their maternal relatives accused of being a witch due to her …

Treatment for childhood cancers and the cost of Hydroxyurea, a drug used for the treatment of sickle cell anaemia, are now covered by the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, who announced this, said: “We have started with four cancers among children for now, but we are determined …

President of ANAQ Foundation, Mrs Ama Nyarko Attafuah Quainoo, has appealed to fathers not abandoned children with sickle cell disease. She said, instead, they must care for them emotionally and support the mothers financially to keep the children healthy and alive. Mrs. Ama Nyarko Attafuah Quainoo, who is a sickle …

Dr. Stephen Amoah, a member of the Finance Committee in Parliament, has linked Ghana’s current economy to a “child with sickle cell’. According to the Nhyiaeso MP, a weak and ailing economy does not need short-term measures by both NPP and NDC government since the structural bottlenecks in the economy …

  A man and his wife have been arrested by the Breman Asikuma Police in the Asikuma Odoben Brakwa District for allegedly burying their two-year-old baby alive on the advice of their pastor. The pastor who is on the run is being trailed by the police. The incident happened at …