Apart from the potential life threatening, prolonged physical and psychological complications associated with severe burns, it receives little publicity and attention after initial public outcry and sympathy for victims

Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa, Executive Director of Healthy Ghana, on Wednesday called on Ghanaians to regularly seek knowledge on their health status, to help mitigate future medical complications

Professor Kwaku Armah, Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at the African University College of Communication (AUCC), on Wednesday called for the provision of periodic information on the existing stock of the nation’s blood banks

The Central Regional Health Directorate on Tuesday took delivery of some clinical equipment and four ambulances donated by the USAID Focus Region Health Project and the Ghana Health Service at short ceremony in Cape Coast

The challenges and threats posed by HIV to our society has been told several times, but needed to be retold as it keeps generating interesting narratives

The Pharmacy Council on Wednesday inducted 126 newly qualified and registered pharmacists into the service, to help bridge the gaps in access to health care

A team of IBM experts has presented to the Ministry of Health (MOH) a forward-looking blueprint to provide Ghanaians access to health care, while improving the availability of medicines, and reducing cost

A mother living with HIV has advised pregnant women to go for Voluntary Testing and Counseling (VTC) to know their HIV status to help protect their unborn babies against HIV infections

Mr Michael Sottie, Senior Blood Donor Organizer at the Accra Area Blood Centre at Korle-bu Teaching Hospital, has commended members of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC) for their commitment to blood donation over the years

The Rt Rev Dr Jacob Kofi Ayeebo, the Executive Director of the Anglican Diocesan Development and Relief Organization (ADDRO), has expressed satisfaction at the extent of work done by his outfit in the control and prevention of malaria in most parts of the country

Ghana is unlikely to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of 185 per 100,000 live births by 2015 unless pragmatic steps are taken to speed up the pace of maternal health interventions in the country, says the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ

The Central Region Secretariat of the Food and Drugs Board (FDB) is to undertake special training programme to assist herbalists to produce safe and quality for both the local and international markets

The Vision for Alternative Development (VALD) and Coalition on the Tobacco Control Bill has appealed to Parliament to support smokers to quit smoking rather than designating areas for them to smoke