Health

Director of the National Cardiothoracic Centre (NCTC), Dr. Lawrence Agyeman Sereboe, has advised the public, especially the youth, to desist from smoking shisha, as the behaviour has a high risk of resulting in heart diseases. He said although smokers find the smoking of shisha fashionable, it is very dangerous to their health, indicating that smoking shisha for one hour is ...

There will be 18.1 million new cases of cancer and 9.6 million people will die with the disease this year worldwide, a report predicts. The rise, from 14.1 million cases and 8.2 million deaths in 2012, is partly due to a growing and ageing population. The figures suggest one in five men and one in six women will develop the ...

President of the Sickle Cell Foundation of Ghana, Prof. Kwaku Ohene-Frempong, has called on the Ministry of Health (MoH) to implement the National Programme on Newborn Screening for Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). Prof. Ohene-Frempong, who is a sickle cell expert, disclosed that more undiagnosed sickle cell babies are dying before five years because the programme, which when implemented would ensure ...

Chairperson of the Ghana Psychological Council Professor Angela Ofori Atta says Ghana loses 7% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to psychological distress cases. She made this revelation at the 4th Scientific Conference held at UPSA in Accra. According to Professor Ofori Atta, the loss is because the nation is not taking mental well-being as seriously as it ought to. ...

Mr Joseph Homenya, Volta Regional Director of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has asked health facilities in the region to desist from charging members of the National Health Insurance Schemes (NHIS) GHC100.00 for every pint of blood. He also cautioned them against detaining clients of the scheme at the health facilities for their inability to pay for blood used ...

Deplorable road networks in the Upper Denkyira East Municipality of the Central Region, is hampering efforts by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to provide quality healthcare to the people of the Area. Dr Kwabena Sarpong, Municipal Health Director said maternal and infant mortality, had been on the increase whereas respiratory tract infections had also become one of the top 10 ...

Parents have been advised not to take for granted common cold,otherwise known as catarrh, among children because if it is not well treated, it could lead to heart problems. A Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at the National Cardiothoracic Centre at Korle Bu, Prof. Mark Tettey, advised parents to send children who suffer from common cold to the hospital for the right ...

Epilepsy cases in Upper West Region have more than doubled in the last two years and the prevailing trend indicates that the figure is likely to further rise in 2018. Reports of recorded cases of epilepsy in the Wa Municipality were 27 in 2016 but jumped to 60 in 2017, a situation the Municipal Health Directorate says could grow higher ...

Currently, Ghana records more than 3,000 cervical cancer cases annually with more than half of those diagnosed not surviving due to late presentation. Cervical cancer is a type of cancer that occurs in the cells of the cervix — the lower part of the uterus that connects to the vagina. According to Dr Kwaku Asah-Opoku, Consultant obstetrician gynecologist at the ...

Mr Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, the Minister of Health on Friday, announced that effective July 1, 2018, all medicine prices under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), would be dropped by an average of 30 per cent. The Health Minister said the decision followed the acceptance of the Committee set up by the Ministry of Health to explore the public policy of ...