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Coronavirus: 13 Ghanaian doctors have been infected so far – Dr Baidoo

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah File Photo Listen to the Article A number of doctors in Ghana have been infected by the deadly Coronavirus, according to the Ashanti Divisional Chairperson of the Ghana Medical Association, Dr. Paa Kwesi Baidoo. Ghana has so far recorded 1,550 cases with 11 deaths and 155 recoveries. Dr …

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Cuba Sends 53 Doctors and Nurses to Fight Covid-19 in Italy

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah     The Cubans, who traveled to Sierra Leone to fight the Ebola virus in 2014, ​​will arrive in Lombardy. Cuban health authorities announced on Thursday that the country will send 53 health professionals to Lombardy, Italy, to help contain the new coronavirus pandemic. The 53 doctors …

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Doctors threaten to strike next week

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has given the government a one-week ultimatum to address conditions of service concerns of its members, otherwise, members will withdraw services from November 18. The Association gave the warning when it addressed journalists at the end of its 61 annual conference in Northern Region capital, Tamale. “A …

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KATH: Ghanaian doctors perform heart surgery without opening patient’s heart

BY: brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah They successfully planted a pacemaker to help accelerate the heart-beat of the patient, a teenage girl who was suffering from a hole-in-heart. Doctors at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi have for the first time performed a successful heart surgery without opening the heart. …

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Ghanaian doctors at KATH perform heart surgery without opening patient’s heart

by;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah The hospital management is confident that they are in a better position to handle such issues   Ghanaian doctors at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) have for the first time performed a successful heart surgery without opening the heart. The new procedure which according to the …

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Accept postings to countryside – President to new doctors

by;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah President Nana Akufo-Addo has urged 378 newly inducted medical doctors and dentists to accept postings to the countryside where their services are most needed. This, he noted, would enable Ghana’s health care system respond more to the needs of the people, as government worked to improve their …

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220 Ghanaian doctors head home from Cuba after completing medical course – Ayorkor Botchway

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 …

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Fake Chinese doctors in Ghana arrested

  By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah  Liu Jin Jun and Lin Zhizhong Personnel of the Medical and Dental Council, in collaboration with the Ghana Police Service, have apprehended two Chinese men for illegally running health facilities at Dzorwulu and Tema Community 11 in the Greater Accra Region without licence. The Chinese ‘doctors’ …

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Doctors find four bees living in woman’s eye, feeding on her tears

  By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah           In a medical case that doctors have called a “world’s first”, a Taiwanese woman was found to have four live sweat bees living in her eye, feeding on her tears. The patient, referred to only as Ms. He, was reportedly tidying …

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We won’t go anywhere — 13 Doctors reject postings to C/R with stated reasons

  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 …

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