Ghana sets May 10 as World Lupus Day

The Ministry of Health and Gender and Social protection has jointly proclaimed the 10th of May as World Lupus Day in Ghana, joining many other nations globally in doing so. This was done in collaboration...

Unposted Allied Health Professionals to picket at MoH today

Unposted Allied Health Professionals numbering about 495 will today, Monday, May 8, picket at the Ministry of Health (MoH) to register their displeasure at the Ministry’s inability to employ them. This follows the financial clearance...

GOIL hands over 1,000 beds to hospitals nationwide 

Ghana Oil Company Limited, GOIL, has handed over One Thousand beds to the Ministry of Health to be distributed to hospitals across the country. The beds, fitted with mattresses are estimated to cost 1.6 million...

Akufo-Addo: Gov’t will employ jobless nurses

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stressed “Ghana needs all its trained manpower to be at work”, and, therefore, has assured unemployed nurses and midwives they will soon be employed by government. President Akufo-Addo acknowledged...

We’ll post aggrieved Nurses soon – Tina Mensah

The deputy Minister of Health Tina Mensah has assured that process are far advanced to get the aggrieved bonded nurses picketing at the health Ministry posted. Nonetheless, she said they would have to be a...

Picketing unposted nurses give up

Aggrieved nurses comprising general nurses, midwives and psychiatric nurses have boycotted their protest after spending two nights at the Ministry of Health to demand their posting. The unposted nurses have given government a two-week ultimatum...

Aggrieved Nurses defy rains to spend night at MoH

The aggrieved unemployed bonded nurses spent the night at the Ministry of Health despite Tuesday night’s heavy downpour. It is their second night at the ministry as they seek for clearance to be employed. Hundreds of...

SKY Girls’ initiative launched to address tobacco smoking

An initiative aimed at curbing smoking among girls has been launched in Accra Tuesday. Dubbed “Sky Girls’ Empowerment Initiative” it is part of a global anti-tobacco campaign led by a UK consultancy firm, Good Business...

Minister feeds picketing jobless nurses

A deputy Minister of Agriculture George Oduro went to the rescue of some irked, jobless and hungry nurses who have been picketing at the Ministry of Health in the last 24 hours. Mr. Oduro provided...

Ghana picked for world’s first Malaria vaccine pilot

Ghana and two other African countries – Kenya and Malawi – have been selected to take part in a WHO-coordinated pilot implementation programme that will make the world’s first malaria vaccine available in selected...