WORLD HEALTH

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised the alert on Meningitis outbreaks in some African countries saying the outbreaks have become “an enormous public health threat.” Describing the outbreak in Nigeria as of utmost concern, the…

ACCRA - The Police Hospital and the 37 Military Hospital on New Year's Day together recorded 37 new births of which 76 per cent were males. Corporal Faustina Nunekpeku, the Public Relations Officer of the Police Hospital told the Ghana…

LONDON - The British government said it was seeking to hold talks with doctors in its state-funded health service in a last-ditch bid to avert a series of mass walkouts, potentially the first of such strikes for four decades, Reuters…

A new study on global burden of disease has revealed that poor diet and high blood pressure are now the leading cause of early death worldwide. According to the results of the twenty-five year study released by University of Melbourne,…

...emergency outbreak response planned Two cases of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 (cVDPV1) have been confirmed in Ukraine, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) has reported. The genetic similarity between the…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced, for the second time around, that Liberia is now free of the Ebola virus. A statement issued by the world body on Thursday September 3 declared that forty-two days had passed since the…

India has achieved a momentous public health feat – the elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus. Maternal and neonatal tetanus is reduced to less than one case per 1 000 live births in all 675 districts of the country. The World…

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has announced the suspension of the 3-week strike by doctors in the country over working conditions. The strike which was suspended on Friday had paralysed outpatient and emergency services at state-run…