HEALTH

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah The government says it has paid “the final part” of allowances due trainee nurses for the 2018/2019 academic year. A statement from the Ministry of Health said the monies were paid on Thursday, August 8, 2019. “This is in fulfilment of the government’s commitment to the restoration …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Former President John Dramani Mahama has been badly exposed over claims that he deliberately selected female Muslim students to be sent to Cuba and trained in gynaecology in order to be able to review their fellow  Muslim women who have difficulty to consult male gynaecologists when they …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah       About 220 Ghanaian medical students have successfully graduated in Cuba after a six-year programme in medicine. The medical doctors are due to return home this month to offer their services to the country’s health sector. The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah   Forty-one per cent of Ghanaians have some form of mental disorders, particularly psychological distress, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Mental Health Authority, Dr Akwasi Osei, has said. Quoting research conducted by a group of scholars from Yale University in the US and the University …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah   The World Health Organization,(WHO), has declared Congo’s recent Ebola outbreak a public health emergency that needs international concern. According to the definition of WHO, a public health emergency means that other states stand the risk of being affected by the spread of the disease. The declaration …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has declared a public health emergency following the detection of the poliovirus type-2 in the Northern Region capital, Tamale. A public health emergency, according to the WHO, is “an occurrence or imminent threat of an illness or health condition, caused by bioterrorism, …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah   It has emerged that Ghana’s nurses expected to be exported to Barbados will not be permanently engaged on the Caribbean Island. The minister of health Kwaku Agyeman Manu made the disclosure shedding more light on Ghana’s memorandum of understanding with Barbados to export nurses to that …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah   The Minister for Education, Hon. Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has described the era of the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, as the best time to study in Ghana. According to the Minister for Education, the introduction of the Free Senior High School policy …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah     Nurses at the West Gonja Hospital in the Savannah Regional capital of Damongo have announced a sit down strike over salary discrepancies starting today Monday 1st July 2019. Chairman of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association who confirmed their decision o Bole-based Nkiligi Fm …

  By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah     Government will from Monday, July 1 begin recruitment of nurses who graduated from public and private health training institutions in the country between 2012 and 2016. Qualified trainees seeking employment are to apply online to select the preferred agency under the Ministry of Health …