Residents in the Ledzokuku Municipal Assembly of the Greater Accra Region on Tuesday, 26 October, 2021 defied the strong winds and heavy rain to attend a community durbar structured to educate them on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) of Persons with mental health conditions. The durbar was meant to raise awareness and equip the public with the requisite ...
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Fighting Breast Cancer: Pfizer raises awareness in Nigeria, Ghana to empower Patients
To drive greater awareness around breast cancer, empower and support breast cancer patients in Nigeria and Ghana, Pfizer along with medical professionals held a media roundtable. Pfizer held the media roundtable to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Metastatic Breast Cancer Day that falls on the 13th of October. The roundtable was attended by two reputable medical professionals from Nigeria ...
Read More »World Mental Health Day: MEHSOG calls for Inclusion of a Service User on Mental Health Board
On 10th October every year the world assembles to celebrate the world mental health day which prolongs for a week. The theme for World Mental Health Day 2021, which is ‘Mental Health in an Unequal World’ has been chosen to underscore the point that the world is increasingly polarized, with the very wealthy becoming wealthier, and the number of people ...
Read More »Health Minister Petitioned Over Inclusion of a Service User on the Mental Health Board
The Mental Health Society of Ghana (MEHSOG) and the Alliance for Mental Health are calling on the Ministry of Health to as a matter of urgency consider the inclusion of mental health service users on the governing board of the Mental Health Authority which is to be constituted and inaugurated in line with Section Four of the Mental Health Law ...
Read More »New scientific group to study COVID origins, prevent future pandemics constituted
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday launched an expert group that will examine the origins of new pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The proposed members of the WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) were selected for their expertise in areas such as epidemiology, animal health, clinical medicine, virology and genomics. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced the news during his regular briefing ...
Read More »COVID-19 deaths at lowest level in nearly a year, WHO reports
Although COVID-19 deaths continue to decline, vaccine inequity persists, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, again calling for greater support for developing countries. Agency chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reported that the death toll from the disease is now at its lowest level in almost a year. “But it’s still an unacceptably high level – almost 50,000 deaths a week, and ...
Read More »Historic go-ahead for malaria vaccine to protect African children
Children across much of Africa are to be vaccinated against malaria in a historic moment in the fight against the deadly disease. Malaria has been one of the biggest scourges on humanity for millennia and mostly kills babies and infants. Having a vaccine – after more than a century of trying – is among medicine’s greatest achievements. The vaccine – ...
Read More »Malaria vaccine hailed as potential breakthrough
A malaria vaccine has proved to be 77% effective in early trials and could be a major breakthrough against the disease, say its developers from the University of Oxford. Malaria kills more than 400,000 people a year, mostly children in sub-Saharan Africa. But despite many vaccines being trialled over the years, none has met the required target for success. The ...
Read More »Abandon Agenda 111 Hospitals to resource NHIS –gov’t told
Senior Lecturer at the Department of Public Administration and Health Services Management at the University of Ghana, Dr. Gordon Abekah-Nkrumah, has urged the government to abandon its ambitious agenda to construct 111 hospitals across the country. He believes the initiative, dubbed Agenda 111 although well intended, will not be feasible considering constraints on fiscal expenditure. Dr. Abekah-Nkrumah wants the government ...
Read More »India records world’s biggest single-day rise in coronavirus cases
India recorded the world’s highest daily tally of 314,835 new COVID-19 infections on Thursday as a second wave of the pandemic raised new fears about the ability of crumbling health services to cope. Health officials across northern and western India including the capital, New Delhi, said they were in crisis, with most hospitals full and running out of oxygen. Some doctors were ...
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