HEALTH

    By:brightwebtv.com /Martin awuku   Over 500 nursing students of the Ntotroso College of Nursing at Ntotroso in the Asutifi North District of the Ahafo Region were on Monday  March 18, 2019 forced to sleep outside after the angry principal locked up the school dormitories after the students failed …

    By:brightwebtv.com /Martin awuku In ten working days, aggrieved privately trained nurses would demonstrate to the government that they have had enough. The nurses have spent more than four years idling at home but now find themselves at their wit’s end.     “This is not fair,” one of …

    By:brightwebtv.com /Martin awuku Inadequate incubators and other facilities, as well as late referrals, contribute to 50% of babies dying within 24 hours after their birth at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital.     That’s not all. Eighty percent of them die within a week after birth. That’s the harrowing statistics …

    By:brightwebtv.com/Martin awuku Authorities of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi are appealing to spirited individuals and philanthropists to help the hospital save the lives of children who need to go under open heart surgery in order to save their lives or else they may die.     …

  By:brightwebtv.com/Martin awuku 2,186 pregnant women tested positive for HIV in 2018, health officials in the Ashanti Region have revealed. According to the officials, the patients were all put on Anti-Retroviral Drugs and monitored.     A total of 142,406 pregnant women were tested for HIV in the area of …

  By:brightwebtv.com/Martin awuku The Ghana National Ambulance Service office in the Upper East region is appealing for more vehicles as it has only one working vehicle for emergencies.     According to them, the situation is negatively affecting quality service delivery particularly the response to accident cases and referrals to …

  By:brightwebtv.com/Martin awuku Healthcare delivery in the Central Region could soon grind to a halt as newly trained medical doctors are refusing postings to the area in view of the high cost of living, MyNewsGh.com reports. The Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr. Alexis Nang Beifubah who is worried …

  by:brightwebtv.com/Martin awuku The Mortuary Workers Association of Ghana (MOWAG) has declared an indefinite strike action.   This comes after complaints submitted to the Health Ministry did not receive any fruitful outcomes. General Secretary of MOWAG, Richard Kofi Jordan on Adom FM’s morning show Dwaso Nsem Thursday said the indefinite strike will begin …

  By:brightwebtv.com/bright Agyapong Two hundred and seventy-five ambulances procured by the government are set to arrive in the country by the end of April this year.   The vehicles are to be distributed to all constituencies in the country. Currently, there are less than 100 functional ambulances operating in some …

    By:brightwebtv.com/Martin Awuku More than 1,000 residents of Kumawu Bodomase and it’s adjoining communities on Friday 15th February 2019 received a free mental health education and health screening to enable them know how to live with the mentally ill and identify their health status to seek early treatment.   …