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Group advocates National Suicide Prevention Plan

Group advocates National Suicide Prevention Plan

Ghana News, Health & Wellbeing, Lifestyle & Social
Ghana needs a National Suicide Prevention Plan to provide a common framework for addressing suicidal behaviours. This is a call from the Association for Suicide Prevention Ghana (GASP), a group of trained experts from multidisciplinary backgrounds. The Association believes such a plan will help produce local but relevant recommendations and guidelines in the areas of suicide research, surveillance, reportage and content in the media. It will also offer support for persons in suicidal crises, help for loved ones and relatives left behind or bereaved by suicides. The Association in a statement signed by its Secretary and President, Dr Johnny Andoh-Arthur and Dr. Emmanuel Nii-Boye Quashie, committed to helping anyone undergoing suicidal crises. The group, however, observed...
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Scientists grow whole model of human embryo, without sperm or egg

Scientists grow whole model of human embryo, without sperm or egg

Health & Wellbeing, International, Lifestyle & Social
Scientists have grown an entity that closely resembles an early human embryo, without using sperm, eggs or a womb.  The Weizmann Institute team say their “embryo model”, made using stem cells, looks like a textbook example of a real 14-day-old embryo. It even released hormones that turned a pregnancy test positive in the lab. The ambition for embryo models is to provide an ethical way of understanding the earliest moments of our lives. The first weeks after a sperm fertilises an egg is a period of dramatic change – from a collection of indistinct cells to something that eventually becomes recognisable on a baby scan.  This crucial time is a major source of miscarriage and birth defects but poorly understood.  “It’s a black box and that’s not a cliche – our ...
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2000 nurses seek greener pastures abroad — Health Ministry

2000 nurses seek greener pastures abroad — Health Ministry

Ghana News, Health & Wellbeing, Lifestyle & Social
About 2,000 nurses working in state and mission health facilities in the country have migrated abroad in recent years, the Ministry of Health has said. At least, 1,400 of the emigrant nurses worked under the Ghana Health Service (GHS), while the remaining 600 worked at facilities of the Christian Health Association of Ghana (CHAG). The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, who said this when he took his turn at the Minister’s Press briefing in Accra yesterday, did not, however, indicate the period the migration happened. He said the situation had not significantly challenged work at health facilities. “We are not getting very serious distress messages from the facilities that if we don’t bring new ones, they can’t work. We are managing the situation,” the minister added. ...
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by Addo Gilbert OduroNo Comments
GIZ, Group donate equipment worth €27,000 to Pentecost Hospital

GIZ, Group donate equipment worth €27,000 to Pentecost Hospital

Health & Wellbeing, Pentecost News
THE German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and Appointed Time, a subsidiary of the Jospong Group of Companies,  have donated laboratory equipment worth over €27,000 (¢317,000) to the Pentecost Hospital at Madina in the Greater Accra Region. The donation was to fulfil a request by the management of the hospital to meet the demand of services from growing number of patients who visit the facility daily. Presenting the equipment to the hospital on behalf of GIZ and Jospong Group, the Chief Corporate Communication Officer at Jospong Group of Companies, Sophia Kudjordji, said the donation was to help management address the pressure on the facility. Madam Kudjordji said some philanthropists personally brought 20 thermometers to the Executive Chairman of Jospong Group, Dr...
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by Addo Gilbert OduroNo Comments
Local Govt, Zoomlion clear 35-year-old refuse dump.

Local Govt, Zoomlion clear 35-year-old refuse dump.

Ghana News, Health & Wellbeing
The Ministry of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development in partnership with Zoomlion Ghana Limited, a waste management company, has embarked on a nationwide exercise to clear all districts of refuse dumps. The exercise formed part of the government’s agenda of keeping the country clean and to improve the sanitation situation in the country. In the Ashanti Region, two districts are benefitting from the exercise where age-old refuse dumps have been cleared. Districts The beneficiary districts in the Ashanti Region are Offinso and Kwabre East Municipal assemblies. At Abofour in the Offinso Municipality the over 30 year-old refuse dump site at Abofour Zongo has been cleared to make the area healthy for the residents to reduce the incidence of diseases. Apprec...
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by Addo Gilbert OduroNo Comments
16 Staff at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital sanctioned for various offenses.

16 Staff at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital sanctioned for various offenses.

Ghana News, Health & Wellbeing
In a bid to uphold discipline and enhance patient care standards, the management of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) has taken decisive action against 16 of its staff members.  These individuals have been found guilty of various infractions, resulting in sanctions ranging from dismissals to cautionary measures and suspensions without pay. According to Professor Otchere Addai-Mensah, the hospital's Chief Executive Officer, these infractions include cases of extortion by some of the implicated staff. He announced these actions during the 2023 mid-year performance review conference in Kumasi, emphasizing the hospital's commitment to maintaining discipline within its ranks. Prof. Addai-Mensah highlighted the hospital's dedication to prioritizing patient care and ensuring...
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by Addo Gilbert OduroNo Comments
Ministers of Health, health leaders pledge to intensify efforts to end polio.

Ministers of Health, health leaders pledge to intensify efforts to end polio.

Africa News, Health & Wellbeing
As the African region marks one year since the last confirmed detection of wild poliovirus type 1, Ministers of Health and other health leaders gathering for the Seventy-third session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa today pledged to intensify efforts to end all forms of the virus. The region’s last confirmed case of wild poliovirus, linked to a strain circulating in Pakistan, was reported in August 2022 in Mozambique’s Tete province. A total of nine cases were detected in both Mozambique and neighbouring Malawi, where an outbreak was confirmed in February 2022. In a coordinated response, more than 45 million children across five southern Africa countries were vaccinated against the virus. The health leaders underscored the pivotal role of enhan...
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World Bank grants $27.7m concessionary funding to NHIS

World Bank grants $27.7m concessionary funding to NHIS

Ghana News, Health & Wellbeing
The World Bank has provided the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) with $27.7 million concessionary funding to improve services, especially to the poor and vulnerable. The funding will enable the scheme to increase its population coverage, register more poor and vulnerable people, and ensure the prompt processing and payment of claims for primary health care (PHC) providers.  The PHCs comprise the community-based health planning services (CHPS) compounds, health centres and maternity homes under the Primary Health Care Improvement. Dubbed Programme for Results (PforR), the amount was provided by the World Bank with some support from the other donors under the umbrella funding group called Global Financing Facility. A health economist with the World Bank, Enoch Oti Agy...
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Stop the display of foodstuffs on the floor – FDA tells traders

Stop the display of foodstuffs on the floor – FDA tells traders

Ghana News, Health & Wellbeing
Traders at the Ho Central Market have been asked to get their wares off the ground to promote the standards required in food safety.  The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) gave the directive during a durbar in the Volta Region, held at the frontage of the market, to mark the World Food Safety Day, where stakeholders raised concerns over how food was displayed on the ground for sale.  Streets, lanes and alleys of the large market are taken over by hundreds of sellers, the majority of whom spread their wares on the bare floor, while pedestrians avoid trampling on them, especially on market days, which come every four days.  Mr Gorden Akurugu, the Volta Regional Head, FDA, said the practice subjected the food to extreme contamination and should be avoided.  The FD...
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Malaria elimination has an impact on countries economic growth – Centre for Malaria Research reveals

Malaria elimination has an impact on countries economic growth – Centre for Malaria Research reveals

Health & Wellbeing, World News
Analysis of malaria data from 180 countries shows that every 10 percent reduction in malaria cases was associated with an average rise of 0.3 percent in Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The analysis shows that high burden, and low income countries have higher than average gains, in these countries same reduction in malaria was associated with an increase to the level of GDP per capita of nearly two percent. That indicates that those in charge of our economy must be interested in the national malaria Elimination agenda to strengthen efforts towards it. Professor Evelyn Ansah, Director Centre for Malaria Research at the University of Health, and Allied Sciences (UHAS) made this known at a virtual summit to mark the world mosquito day. She said the Elimination agenda calls for active...
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