Paramount Chief of Aflao Traditional Area Torgbui Adzonugaga Amenya Fiti V, has taken his first COVID-19 jab at his residence in Aflao, to convince chiefs and people of the Traditional Area to also take the shot. The President of the Aflao Traditional Council who led members of the Council in taking their first dose of […]Continue Reading

The Ghana Industrial Trawlers Association (GITA) has commenced an inoculation exercise against COVID-19 for fishermen and fish traders operating at the Tema Fishing Harbour.The exercise is seeking to vaccinate some 2,000 sailors and other groupings operating within the fishing supply chain at the harbour. The association said it formed part of efforts to reduce infections Continue Reading

The Health Services Workers’ Union is threatening a protest from 20th to 22nd October 2021, over delayed negotiations for conditions of service of its members. In a statement sighted by Kingdom FM, the union said it is being discriminated against. “Reviewing and comparing how Government treats our sister unions, the HSWU has a strong conviction […]Continue Reading

Professor Fred Binka, a Clinical Epidemiologist at the University of Health and Allied Sciences, says the World Health Organisation’s (WHO’s) approval of the use of the Mosquirix Malaria Vaccine in Africa is good news, especially for the poor. “…In our country, it is the poor that are exposed to mosquito bites and malaria. The rich […]Continue Reading

Ghana loses seven per cent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) annually due to mental health disorders, translating into about $5billion for last year alone, the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority (MHA), Dr Caroline Amissah,has disclosed. She has therefore called for issues of mental health to be given the needed attention […]Continue Reading

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has revealed that a total of 227,920 people are blind in the country. This is according to a new survey conducted by the Service this year. It further disclosed that some 329,560 Ghanaians have severe visual impairment while 579,040 have moderate impairment. According to the statistics, 54.8 per cent of […]Continue Reading

The United Kingdom’s (UK) government has included Ghana on the list of countries and territories with approved vaccination certificate starting 4am Monday October, 11, 2021. Information released on the UK government’s website stated that travellers who received their vaccine in Ghana and arrive in England before the said date, ‘must follow the rules for people […]Continue Reading

The male orthopedic ward D at the Trauma and Orthopaedic Department at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has been opened after it was closed down last year for refurbishment. The 20-bed ward was re-commissioned on Wednesday, September 29, 2021, following the refurbishment at a cost close to GHS 700,000 generated internally from the sale of […]Continue Reading

Data from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) indicates that the country’s active Covid-19 cases is on the decline. As of September 27, Ghana’s active cases stood at 3,088. But in the Service’s latest update, a total number of 3,052 active cases have been recorded. Out of the total active cases recorded, 122 are said to […]Continue Reading