Health

Els: MBN360 Health Ghana’s Minister of Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has announced the deployment of Public Health Nurses to flood-affected communities to educate residents on disease prevention. According to him, health officials are intensifying efforts to prevent a possible outbreak of waterborne and vector-borne diseases following the recent floods. The Health Minister made this known after […]

Els: MBN360 Health The Nabdam District Manager of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in the Upper East Region, Jeremiah Abugbire, has welcomed Ghana’s move to begin local manufacturing and production of vaccines, describing it as a major step that could help stabilise medicine prices and improve access to essential health products. The manager, who said he […]

Els: MBN360 Health The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has launched the Faith and Wellness Drive, a nationwide community outreach initiative aimed at bringing National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) registration, renewal and health insurance education directly to churches, mosques and other faith-based organisations across Ghana. The initiative, which forms part of the NHIA’s broader strategy […]

Els: MBN360 Health The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr. Samuel Kaba Akoriyea, reaffirmed the Service’s commitment to strengthening adolescent sexual and reproductive health services through the government’s Free Primary Healthcare (FPHC) initiative, calling for stronger family involvement, closer collaboration and community-driven interventions to address adolescent pregnancy and other reproductive health challenges. Speaking […]

Els: MBN360 Health The Ghana Health Service (GHS), in partnership with the Ghana Red Cross Society (GRCS), has launched the ‘Resilient and Empowered African Community Health (REACH) initiative”, a major community-based health programme that will deploy 2,300 community health workers to strengthen primary healthcare delivery and improve disease prevention across four regions of the country. “This new two-year […]

Els: MBN360 Health The Presidential Staffer and Medical Doctor, Dr Sammy Ayeh has explained the long history surrounding the Afari hospital project and outlined how funding arrangements, site changes and contractual obligations influenced its current state. He traced the development of the Ghana Nine Hospital Project, noting that approvals and financing arrangements evolved under successive […]

Els: MBN360 Health Health experts have raised concerns over the high mortality risk among children born with sickle cell disease in Ghana, warning that a significant number may die before the age of five if they do not receive early diagnosis and consistent care. Co-founder of Heale, Dr Enam Sefakor Bankas, says about 15,000 babies […]

Els: MBN360 Health The Ministry of Health has launched Ghana’s 2026 Integrated Mass Drug Administration (MDA) Campaign, reaffirming the government’s commitment to eliminating three major Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) Onchocerciasis (River Blindness), Lymphatic Filariasis (Elephantiasis), and Schistosomiasis (Bilharzia)—as public health problems by 2030. The nationwide campaign, scheduled from June 20 to July 3, 2026, will provide free […]

Els: MBN360 Health The Tamale Circuit Court has granted bail to two nurses accused of being connected to the alleged disappearance of a newborn baby at the Salaga Government Hospital in the Savannah Region. The court, presided over by Her Honour Afua Srakubea Agyeman-Darbu, granted each accused person bail in the sum of GH¢150,000 with two sureties. […]

Els: MBN360 Health he Member of Parliament for Jirapa, Honourable Cletus Seidu Dapilah has criticised the New Patriotic Party over the pace of work on the Afari Military Hospital, arguing that policy decisions taken during its administration slowed progress on the project. He stated that key interventions that could have accelerated completion were reversed, placing […]