Health

By Mohammed Suleman STAR Ghana Foundation is in the process of establishing a robust manifesto tracker to systematically monitor government commitments in the health sector. The move, according to the Foundation is critical in ensuring accountability and evidence-based engagement with policymakers. These issues were made known in Accra on Thursday, March 13, 2025 at a National convening on tracking government ...

According to the Ministry, Dr Adams, in a publication on page 11 of the Ghanaian Times dated Tuesday, 4th March 2025, alleged that the hospitals in Trede, Kokoben, and Ahanta were successfully completed, equipped, and commissioned before the previous government left office. He also stated that a dedicated funding source of $1.3 billion had been secured to complete the remaining ...

Programmes to tackle HIV, polio, mpox and bird flu have been affected by the freeze on tens of billions of dollars of overseas aid from the US, says the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO). US President Donald Trump has taken steps to close the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), arguing that its spending is “totally unexplainable”. ...

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 ...