HEALTH

  By:brightwebtv.com /nana asare barimah Four persons infected with Covid-19 are in critical condition and are on ventilators while 14 others are critically ill, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has said. Meanwhile, 339 new cases of the coronavirus disease have been confirmed as the country’s total case count nears 13,000. At a …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah An update from the Ghana Health Service indicates that Ghana’s COVID-19 case count has risen to 12,929 out of a total of 261,319 tests. This indicates the detection of 339 new cases and brings the positivity rate for the infection in Ghana to 4.95%. According to the …

  By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah NIA Starts Mop-Up Registration Today The National Identification Authority (NIA) will begin a mop-up mass registration exercise throughout the country, except in the Eastern Region, from today,Thursday, June 18, 2020. The authority indicated that the mass registration in the Eastern Region, which was suspended on March …

  By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital The Management of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi, has asked the doctors and nurses working at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital to proceed on a 14-day self quarantine following their exposure to the coronavirus (COVID-19). A …

  By:brightwebtv.com nana Asare barimah The Central Regional Directorate of the Ghana Health Service has asked all health facilities and districts to desist from mass testing of people unless they are authorised by the Director-General. In a statement signed by the Regional Director, it said all suspected cases within the …

  By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah File photo : A baby A three-month-old baby is among the recorded Covid-19 deaths in the Northern, the regional Ghana Health Service says. Speaking at a briefing in Tamale, Northern Regional Director of Health Service, Dr John Bertson Eleeza said the infant and two other adults …

  By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has said all outstanding debt owed its service providers have been settled. In a statement issued on Wednesday, June 17, 2020, the Authority said over GH¢92 million had initially been released for the payment of these debts even before the …

  By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah The National Health Insurance Authority has asked staff at its Head Office with underlying health conditions to stay home after eight of its executives including the CEO Dr Lydia Dsane-Selby tested positive for COVID-19. The company is also barring persons who do not work there from entering …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah So far sisty-six people have died of the disease in Ghana Ghana has recorded 397 new COVID-19 cases to take the case count to 12, 590, the Ghana Health Service has reported on Wednesday, 17 June 2020.Also, eight more patients have succumbed to the virus, taking the …

  By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah The Ho Municipal Assembly is enforcing the directive of President Akufo-Addo to make wearing of face masks compulsory. The assembly has instituted a spot fine of GHC20 against persons who are caught without nose masks in public. The fine is in accordance with the current Fee …