Articles from the ‘Health’ category
Posted by GNA on October 6, 2007 at 11:45 am in Health
Health experts in Accra on Friday advocated the implementation of the Intermitted Preventive Treatment in Infants (IPTi) as an intervention to control malaria and reduce infant mortality. Findings from studies conducted by the Navrongo, Kintampo, Kumasi and Tamale Health Research Institutes of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) presented at the meeting confirmed that IPTi with [...]
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Posted by GNA on October 5, 2007 at 2:54 pm in Health
Dr Franklin Asiedu-Bekoe, Asante-Akim South District Director of Health Services, has said that the best way to avoid contracting HIV/AIDS was to consider everyone a potential carrier of the virus. He said such a mentality would go a long way to control people’s sexual lifestyles, since casual and unprotected sex was the major cause of [...]
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Posted by Audrey Micah on at 9:21 am in Health
Dr. Kwadwo Odei Antwi-Agyei, the Programmes Manager for the Expanded Programmes for Immunization (EPI) has advised nursing mothers to consistently attend post-natal clinics until their children attained age five. He said it was not the best to stop attending post-natal clinics when the babies were a year old. Dr. Antwi-Agyei in an interview with the [...]
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Posted by Contributor on October 1, 2007 at 8:47 am in Health
The Upper West Regional Director of Education, Mr. Cletus Paaga, says HIV/AIDS is a major threat to education hence the need for education authorities to incorporate the HIV/AIDS into the school curriculum. “Schools are at times closed down due to HIV/AIDS infection on pupils, students, teachers and even parents or the community”, he said. He [...]
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Posted by Contributor on September 30, 2007 at 7:06 pm in Health
The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has expressed its concern about the current deplorable state of mental healthcare in the country and the continuous undue delay in passing and implementing the Mental Health Bill more than one year after its drafting. The association called on the government to show greater sensitivity to the current deplorable state [...]
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Posted by Contributor on September 28, 2007 at 10:38 am in Health
Health training institutions and regulatory bodies have been urged to design curricula that will integrate modern scientific findings with educational projects to enable both students and tutors perceive society as the location of man’s creation. Mr Abraham Dwuma Odoom, Deputy Minister of Health, who made the call said this would not only make them employ [...]
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Posted by GNA on at 10:37 am in Health
Ghana spent 777 million dollars annually for the treatment of malaria while the country’s health facilities recorded 30 million cases of the disease last year. Major Courage Quarshigah (Rtd), Minister of Health, disclosed this at a meeting of Health Workers and Assembly Members in the Savelugu/Nanton District on Wednesday. The Minister was in the region [...]
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Posted by Contributor on September 27, 2007 at 10:30 am in Health
Vice President Aliu Mahama on Wednesday expressed worry about the rising incidence of Guineaworm, which he said was lowering the high international image of Ghana. He noted that the water-borne disease afflict patients for a long time thereby reducing socio-economic productivity in the most endemic areas. The Vice President expressed these views when he interacted [...]
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