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Suspected illegal abortion clinic, 8 other health facilities shut down

  By:brightwebtv.com nana Asare Barimah A clinic in Kumasi suspected to be performing illegal abortion has been shut down by the Health Facility Regulatory Agency (HeFRA). The Lake Road Clinic is among nine facilities locked up in a two-day exercise aimed at sanitising the health service delivery sector. All nine …

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Ghana Health Service to deploy 12,500 vaccinators for nationwide exercise

    File photo: 20 million persons are to be vaccinated in the exercise The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has said it will deploy about 12, 500 vaccinators for the upcoming nationwide COVID-19 vaccination exercise. This was disclosed at a public engagement on the COVID-19 vaccination roll-out plan held on …

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Absence of these elements make a health facility substandard – HeFRA boss

  by;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah File photo: Doctor The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Health Facilities Regulatory Agency (HeFRA), Dr Philip Bannor, has announced the minimum requirements for the establishment of hospitals in Ghana. According to Dr Bannor, per the new standards of HeFRA, a hospital should have at least 40 …

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Akufo-Addo hands over 10,000 hospital beds to Ministry of Health

by:brightwebtv/nana asare barimah President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at the ceremony President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has handed over to the Ministry of Health (MoH) a total of 10,000 hospital beds which are to be distributed across hospitals in the 275 constituencies of the country. This comes as part of a 2016 …

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2,065 Frontline Health Workers infected with Covid-19 – GHS

By:brightwebtv.com nana Asare barimah Two thousand and sixty-five (2,065) Frontline Health Workers have been infected with Covid-19 since the nation recorded the first two cases on March 12, 2020. Out of the figure, 1,870 had fully recovered, 183 are undergoing treatment at home and in isolation centres, while six have …

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Coronavirus: 779 health staff test positive, 9 dead – GMA

By:brightwebtv.com nana Asare barimah Ghana’s case count now at 23,463 Some 779 health staff in Ghana have tested positive for COVID-19, a joint press statement issued by the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), the Government Hospital Pharmacists, Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association and the Health Sector Workers Union has said. At …

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Appeal court judge dies shortly after complaining of ill-health

By:brightwebtv.com nana Asare barimah A Justice of the Court of Appeal, Justice Paul Gyaesayor, has died after complaining of ill-health Tuesday, Starrfm.com.gh.can confirm. The experienced Judge who reported for work, according to sources at the Judicial Service, complained of ill-health and went home. But, he died shortly after he left …

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Coronavirus: Check out update on Mac Manu’s health

By:brightwebtv.com/ nana Asare barimah Peter Mac Manu, NPP Campaign manager Campaign Manager of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Peter Mac-Manu, who is receiving treatment after testing positive for COVID-19, is in stable condition. The veteran politician, who was said to be at the Intensive Care Unit of the Korle Bu …

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Akufo-Addo confirms Health Minister has coronavirus

  By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has confirmed the health status of the Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, who has tested positive for the novel Coronavirus. During his 11th televised update to the nation on measures to fight Covid-19, the President used the opportunity to wish …

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Ghana’s Minister for Health tests positive for Coronavirus

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah The Minister for Health, Kwaku Agyeman Manu is recovering in hospital after testing positive for COVID-19. Information available to Citi News indicates that the Minister has been receiving treatment at the University of Ghana Medical Centre in Accra over the past week. Multiple sources in the medical team at …

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