Ghana

Ghana has announced the preliminary finding of two cases of Marburg virus disease and if confirmed these would the first such infections recorded in the country. Marburg is a highly infectious viral haemorrhagic fever in the same…

Ghana has received a historic first shipment of 600,000 doses of AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX Facility. Ghana is the first country to receive the COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX Facility, an arrangement by the…

Ghanaian  President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has gone into a 14-day self-isolation after one of his close associates tested positive for the novel coronavirus, a statement has said. The statement signed by the Minister for…

Countries across the Africa region marked the first ever World Patient Safety Day on 17 September 2019, a day set aside by world leaders at the 72nd World Health Assembly to create awareness on patient safety and commitment towards…

Joins Ghana and Malawi The malaria vaccine pilot programme is now fully under way in Africa, as Kenya joins Ghana and Malawi to introduce the landmark vaccine as a tool against a disease that continues to affect millions of…

Ghana became the second country onTuesday April 30, after Malawi,  to  launch the  world’s first malaria vaccine in a landmark pilot programme to be implemented in three African countries for children up to 2 years of age. Kenya, the…

Children aged between six months and two years are expected to receive the first ever malaria vaccination in a WHO-coordinated pilot implementation of the Malaria Vaccine Implementation Program (MVIP) expected to commence in April in Ghana,…

Urges citizens to embrace healthy diets to prevent diseases President, Nana Dankwa Akufo-Addo devoted a substantial part of his third State of the Nation Address (SONA)  on  Thursday, February 21, to health care, as…

Renowned malariologist, Prof. Oyibo,  blames the trend on poor diagnosis Malaria has been found to be over-diagnosed and over-treated in health facilities and pharmacy shops in developing countries, especially Nigeria and Ghana.…

Ghana’s Happy FM and UT Bank are spearheading the donation of over 1,000 pints of blood to stock the National Blood Bank and save lives at the 37 Military and Korle Bu Teaching Hospitals. Organized every year for the past 12 years, this…