Health

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has raised concerns over increasing cases of alcohol misuse, drug abuse, and incidents of sexual misconduct among healthcare workers, warning that such behaviour severely compromises patient care and professionalism in the health sector. Speaking at the GMA’s annual general meeting, GMA President Dr. Frank Serebour highlighted these troubling trends, noting that affected health professionals continue ...

Around one in seven children and adolescents aged 10 to 19 are affected by mental health conditions – with anxiety, depression and behavioural disorders among the most common, according to a new World Health Organization and UN Children’s Fund report released on Wednesday.  In addition, one-third of mental health conditions emerge before the age of 14 and half before the age ...

The number of people in Africa living with hearing loss could rise to 54 million by 2030, up from 40 million today, unless urgent measures are taken, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a report published on Monday.  Hearing loss already costs the continent $27 million annually, exacting profound impact on lives and economies, according to the report, which was ...

The acting Programmes Manager of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Mary Efua Commeh, who made this known, said the high cost of medication had made it impossible for many people with cancer to gain access to quality health care. “To the ordinary Ghanaian, a cancer automatically becomes a death sentence. People can just not afford ...

The Electoral Commission of Ghana has admitted mistakes in the provisional voters register in respect of the  Ajumako/Enyan/Essiam Constituency. According to the Deputy Commissioner of the EC in charge of Corporate Affairs, Dr Eric Bossman Asare, the anomalies have been rectified. “In the preparations towards the 2024 Exhibition Exercise, the Absent Voters List and the Transferred Voters List inadvertently included ...

The first phase of a UN-led polio vaccination campaign has begun in the middle areas of Gaza. The operation aims to inoculate 600,000 children in the coming days. Hundreds of Gazan families have been queueing to await the turn of their child to receive a polio vaccination since early Sunday morning, in a campaign designed to stop the resurgence of ...

The swift spread of a new virulent strain of the mpox virus across Africa triggered the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare it once again a public health emergency of international concern last week. But, what is it, where did it come from and how can the world deal with the threat, which inevitably raises the spectre of pandemics past such as COVID-19 and ...

 The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years, following an outbreak of the viral infection in Democratic Republic of Congo that has spread to neighbouring countries. An emergency committee met earlier on Wednesday to advise WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on whether the disease outbreak constitutes a “public ...

Private legal practitioner and author, Albert Gyamfi, has urged Ghanaians to take steps to sue facilities and medical professionals for suspected cases of medical negligence to help reform the country’s health system. According to him, the reluctance of victims to pursue justice has allowed medical negligence to persist in Ghana. “Letting things go is what has made medical negligence persist ...

The Health Committee of Parliament has strongly condemned the sudden closure of the Renal Unit at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, a decision that has tragically led to the deaths of three kidney patients. The unit was shut down almost two weeks ago without an official explanation, sparking outrage. The President of the Kidney Patients Association, Baffour Ahenkorah, confirmed that three ...