HEALTH

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Two staff of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital have tested positive for Coronavirus. The two are a nurse and a doctor who work at the Department of Medicine and Department of Child Health respectively, an internal communique sighted by otecNews indicated. The two are currently being taken care of …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Nine new cases of Covid-19 have been recorded in the country, the Health Service has confirmed. According to the Ghana Health Service (GHS) six of the cases were recorded in the country’s epicentre for the pandemic, Greater Accra while three are from the Ashanti region. The Service …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Born to a Ghanaian father and a German mother in the German city of Troisdorf, Dr. Marylyn Addo has carved a niche for herself as one of just a few women at the forefront of finding a much sought-after vaccine for the deadly global pandemic, the Coronavirus. Having …

by:brightwebtv/nana asare barimah Health professionals at the Accidents and Emergency Centre of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital say they will not continue working until everyone in the department is tested for Covid-19. According to the nurses, all staff at the emergency unit are living in fear after their management hid …

  by:brightwebtv/nana asare barimah North Korean leader Kim Jong-un North Korea’s claim that “not a single person” in the country has been infected with the coronavirus is facing growing scepticism. It has credited strict containment measures and the shutting down of its borders for this success. But the top US …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah The Greater Accra Regional Hospital (Ridge Hospital) is one of the medical facilities to manage the coronavirus pandemic. A Specialist doctor with the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Ridge is under self quarantined after he tested positive for the Covid-19. He had returned into the country from South …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Ghana has confirmed one (1) additional COVID-19 case from Upper East Region. This particular case has no travel history or contact with any of the other confirmed cases in the country, the Ghana Health Service has disclosed. As at 3rd April 2020, Ghana has recorded a total …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah The Minister of Health Kwaku Agyemang Manu has revealed that Ghana may not extend the two-week partial lockdown after it expires. According to him, the directive has so far been successful and the lockdown has made contact tracing in the past four days very effective, hence his …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says it has as of yesterday, April 2 taken 6,000 samples across the country to be tested as part of a contact tracing and enhanced testing exercise. According to the Director-General of the GHS, Dr. Patrick Aboagye, some 300 teams are carrying …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Ghana’s has recorded 204 cases of Coronavirus, confirms the Ghana Health Service. Since the last situational update, Ghana has confirmed nine additional COVID-19 cases, all from Greater Accra region. Four (4) of them have no history of travel nor contact with any confirmed case. Other four (4) have …