The Upper East Region has recorded tremendous improvement in healthcare delivery and services in 2011 compared to previous years

The bad nature of roads in the Ahafo-Ano South District is said to have become a major hindrance to quality health care delivery in the area.
Pregnant mothers and other sick people find it difficult to make it to the health facilities and this has resulted in increased maternal deaths

The Ministry of Health (MOH) on Wednesday held a meeting with its development partners and other stakeholders to solicit their inputs in a draft master strategy on the Sector’s Commodity Supply Chain System in Accra

The Children’s Emergrncy Ward of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, which was closed down as a result of the outbreak of bacterial infection known as Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), has been re-opened to the public

The Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) will organise HIV and AIDS fair from February 21 to 24 as part of its tenth anniversary celebration in Accra, this month

The Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) will organise HIV and AIDS fair as part of activities to commemorate its tenth anniversary celebration in Accra, this month.
A statement issued in Accra on Monday by Director General of GAC, Dr Angela El Adas, said: “The aim of the fair among others is to help increase awareness of HIV and AIDS in the country”

Dr. Samuel Tetteh Kwashie, Central Regional Director, Ghana Health Services, says the Ministry Of Health and its agencies have put in place measures and strategies to achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDG) 4, 5, and 6 by 2015

Cocoa Clinic, a public medical centre in Accra has organised a free medical screening programme for the people of Serpeiman and its environs in the Ga West Municipal Assembly

The Medical Director of the Koforidua Regional Hospital, Dr Daniel Asare, on Friday disclosed that the hospital is to integrate herbal medical practice into its operation this year. He said however that the herbal drugs approved by the Ministry of Health were not covered by the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS)

The Koforidua Regional Hospital is to train phlebotomists for health institutions in the Eastern Region to help improve upon laboratory services. The Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Daniel Asare, announced this at the graduation ceremony of the first ten phlebotomists trained by the hospital in Koforidua on Friday

Six cases of breast cancer infection with one being at an advanced stage have been detected at Asesewa in the Upper Manya Krobo District after 85 women were screened. Ms Jane Kwapong, Eastern Regional Director of the Department of Women, said this during the exercise conducted by the Eastern Regional Secretariat of the Department of Women, adding that breast cancer affects women exclusively, accounting for 99 per cent of total reported cases

A clinic to handle tuberculosis cases has been inaugurated within the Mfantseman Municipal Hospital at Saltpond. Mr Aquinas Tawiah Quansah, Deputy Minister for the Central Region and Member of Parliament for Mfantseman West, funded the construction of the facility at a cost of GHc40, 000

The Eastern Regional Minister, Dr. Kwasi Akyem Apea-Kubi, has kicked against the rationalization of the region’s high HIV prevalence and called for a drastic action plan to reduce the pandemic’s hyper rate of infection

The Eastern Regional office of the Food and Drugs Board (FDB) on Thursday destroyed several cartons of fish which were exposed to bad hygienic conditions. One Madam Felicia of Srodae, a suburb of Koforidua, was said to have kept the fish on the bare floor for four days

The Baptist Child Development Programme, a Non-governmental Organization (NGO), has provided a health facility to the people of Kasuliyili in the Tolon/Kumbungu District to ensure quality healthcare delivery