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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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by Samuel AnsongNo Comments
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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by Samuel AnsongNo Comments
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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by Samuel AnsongNo Comments
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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by Samuel AnsongNo Comments
Ghana Medical Relief offers free care for 7k residents in Tamale

Ghana Medical Relief offers free care for 7k residents in Tamale

Ghana News, Health & Wellbeing, International, Lifestyle & Social
More than 7,000 residents in Tamale and its environs have received free medical care from the Ghana Medical Relief (GMR), a United States-based non-profit organisation to ensure healthy living.  The five-day free medical outreach at the Tamale Teaching Hospital, held from July 24-28, 2023, provided paediatric urology, dental, and obstetrics services to the people.  The team also registered 3,100 persons in Tamale and its environs in the Northern Region onto the National Health Insurance Scheme for free and conducted 621 dental procedures and extraction.  The exercise was undertaken in collaboration with the John Agyekum Kufuor (JAK) Foundation and the Ghana Airforce, who helped airlift all medical supplies from Accra to Tamale and donated various equipment, incl...
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by Samuel AnsongNo Comments
List of African countries with the best healthcare systems midway into 2023

List of African countries with the best healthcare systems midway into 2023

Ghana News, Health & Wellbeing
Access to quality healthcare is a fundamental right and a cornerstone of societal well-being. In Africa, the healthcare landscape has seen significant improvements over the years, but challenges persist. The concept of a healthcare index has gained prominence as a tool to assess and benchmark healthcare systems, enabling countries to identify strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement. Africa’s healthcare system is a diverse tapestry, characterised by a mix of public and private providers, varying infrastructure levels, and differing degrees of access to medical services. While some countries have made commendable strides in healthcare delivery, others grapple with limited resources, inadequate infrastructure, and workforce shortages. This inequality in healthcare access oft...
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by Samuel AnsongNo Comments
Unhealthy habits you should stop doing after meals

Unhealthy habits you should stop doing after meals

Ghana News, Health & Wellbeing, Lifestyle & Social
From an early age, we are taught that clean eating is essential for a healthy life, which is one hundred percent true. The fact is if you eat nutritious food, you will experience an overall better quality of life but if you consume a lot of junk food, you will develop health problems. While nothing can contradict this truth, there are still more benefits that lie in being mindful about what you do right before and after meals. Chances are you are guilty of at least one of these not so good habits after chowing down your dinner. Here are some post-meal habits that could be secretly affecting your health and productivity. Going to bed immediately It is a fact that many of us hit the sack right after a meal. Sometimes we’re tired after a long day and the only thing we want to do i...
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by Samuel AnsongNo Comments
Sustaining the mental health agenda in Ghana

Sustaining the mental health agenda in Ghana

Ghana News, Health & Wellbeing
Ghana has over 2.3 million people living with various mental health conditions, yet mental health care remains a challenge, with a 98% treatment gap. Since 2022, the country has been implementing the Director General’s Special Initiative for Mental Health (DG-SIMH) in four regions to address the gaps and strengthen the standard of mental health and well-being. The five-year initiative supported by the Government of Norway and USAID seeks to get 100 million more people to access quality and affordable mental health services in 12 countries around the world, including Ghana. Now, the World Health Organization (WHO) is enhancing the capacity of the implementing regions and partners to ensure the sustainability of the initiative and other inventions even after the implementation period. ...
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by Samuel AnsongNo Comments
Daily soft drink linked to increased risk of liver disease

Daily soft drink linked to increased risk of liver disease

Ghana News, Health & Wellbeing
In a new study, researchers have found an increased risk of liver cancer and chronic liver disease mortality among women who consume sugar-sweetened beverages on a daily basis. Led by researchers at Harvard-affiliated  Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the observational study included nearly 100,000 postmenopausal women from the Women’s Health Initiative. Participants were followed for a median of more than 20 years. Researchers looked at self-reported liver cancer incidence and death due to chronic liver diseases such as fibrosis, cirrhosis, or chronic hepatitis, which were further verified by medical records or the National Death Index. A total of 98,786 postmenopausal women were included in the final analyses. The 6.8 per cent of women who consumed one or more sugar-sweetened ...
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by Samuel AnsongNo Comments
Parliament passes law to criminalise accusations of witchcraft, practice of witchfinders and witch doctors

Parliament passes law to criminalise accusations of witchcraft, practice of witchfinders and witch doctors

Africa News, Ghana News, Health & Wellbeing, Lifestyle & Social
Parliament has passed a law criminalising the declaration, accusation, naming or labelling of another person as a witch in Ghana. The amendment which was approved on Thursday, also prohibits any person from practicing as a witch doctor or witchfinder.  Speaking in Parliament, Speaker Alban Bagbin who announced that the Criminal Offences Amendment Bill 2022 had been read for the third time and passed, explained that it had amended the Criminal Offences Act 1960, Act 29, “to prohibit the practice by any person as a witch doctor or a witchfinder, to proscribe the declaration, accusation, naming or labelling of another person as a witch and for related matters.” Speaking to JoyNews’ Kwaku Asante, one of the sponsors of the bill, MP for Wa East, Dr. Godfred Seidu Jassaw ...
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