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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...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
United States, Korea and Japan enter historic partnership to improve primary health care in Ghana

United States, Korea and Japan enter historic partnership to improve primary health care in Ghana

Ghana News, Health & Wellbeing
The Ambassadors of the United States, Japan and the Republic of Korea to Ghana, have announced a historic partnership. This was at an event hosted by Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman-Manu on Tuesday, July 25. This agreement between the three countries supports Ghana’s goal of Universal Health Coverage. The three countries’ shared commitment will improve primary health care and strengthen global health security defences in Ghana against current and future pandemic threats – at a time when the world is emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic but with many countries experiencing backsliding in some essential health services.  The agreement signed today will help align individual countries’ efforts, allowing each to focus on comparative strengths in support of Ghana’s public health i...
Stay and serve the motherland – Nurses told

Stay and serve the motherland – Nurses told

Ghana News, Headlines Today, Health & Wellbeing
The Aflao Sector Commander of the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority, Assistant Commissioner Joseph Allan, has appealed to nurses and midwives to stay and offer their services to the citizenry. He said nurses and midwives played an integral role in the healthcare system as they were responsible for providing care and support to families and communities including personnel under his Command, hence, the need for them to stay back and serve the country. Assistant Commissioner Allan made the appeal through his representative at a ceremony to mark this year’s ‘Nurses and Midwives week celebration’ at Aflao under the theme, “Our Nurses and Midwives, Our Future.” He said nurses and midwives might be facing challenges including poor working environments and conditions of serv...
Ghana to launch new HIV self-testing program

Ghana to launch new HIV self-testing program

Ghana News, Health & Wellbeing, Lifestyle & Social
Ghana is set to launch a new HIV self-testing (HIVST) program at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly on July 19, 2023. The program on the theme “Test Yourself: Know Your Status” is coordinated by the National Planning Committee (NPC) in partnership with the Ministry of Health. This seeks to make it easier and more convenient for people to get tested for HIV. According to the Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC), there are more than 350,000 persons living with HIV. However, only about 71% of them are aware of their status. The remaining 29%, consequently, pose a major concern as they may, unknowingly, be spreading the virus. The Lead Coordinator of the Ghana and AIDS Network Ernest Amoabeng Ortsin explained that the “HIVST is similar to how a malaria or pregnancy test can be done at home ...
Employers must create HIV/TB policies for the workplace – Ayisi Addo

Employers must create HIV/TB policies for the workplace – Ayisi Addo

Ghana News, Health & Wellbeing, Lifestyle & Social
The National AIDS/STI Control Programme’s (NACP) Programme Manager, Dr Stephen Ayisi Addo, has urged employers to create a workplace HIV/TB policy to help manage and treat employees who have the disease.  A workplace policy is crucial, according to Dr Ayisi Addo, because HIV was a problem that affected people who came to work and could potentially be contracted at the workplace.  “The workplace is a setting for social interaction and physical contact, which makes it possible for infectious diseases like COVID-19 and HIV to spread. Since HIV can be spread through the workplace, it must also be controlled there,” he emphasized.  Dr Ayisi Addo said this at the weekly, “Your Health! Our Collective Responsibility! A Ghana News Agency Tema Regional Office initiative aimed...
Students advised to use Internet advantageously

Students advised to use Internet advantageously

Ghana News, Health & Wellbeing, Lifestyle & Social
Member of the Tema Secondary School Old Students Association (TOSA), Kwadwo Owusu Baah, has encouraged final year students in Senior High Schools to pay attention to advantages on social media to create passive income for themselves. Mr. Baah said this at a forum in Tema Secondary School dubbed “TOSA Tertiary Talks,” an initiative of TOSA that seeks to call on illustrious alumni of the school to encourage and present to the students a picture of life after school because most of them will graduate without any insight into what lies ahead of them. He said, at their stage, it was critical to identify who they wanted and didn’t want to become in life and seek to also identify ways of working and living that would not add unnecessary risk to their path. He told students that the evolu...
Don’t share your prescribed medicines with others – Pharmacist

Don’t share your prescribed medicines with others – Pharmacist

Ghana News, Health & Wellbeing
The public has been cautioned against sharing some of their prescribed medicines with friends and family who may have similar symptoms.  Mr. Stephen Ohene Sabi, Head of Pharmacy at the Pleasant Medical Centre, Ashaiman Middle-East, who gave the caution, said even though people might have similar symptoms, they might be suffering from different sicknesses and consider the fact that every medicine was a potential poison if not taken under the right instructions and with the right diagnosis.  Mr Sabi said this at the weekly “Your Health! Our Collective Responsibility! A Ghana News Agency Tema Regional Office initiative aimed at promoting health-related communication and providing a platform for health information dissemination to influence personal health choices through impro...
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