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Tain District hospital: Ideal for regional status. Since its commissioning in 2021, Tain District Hospital has chalked some monumental recognition in health care delivery. The Tain District Hospital in the Bono Region has been adjudged as a best-performing district-level hospital in the region for the facility's impressive healthcare delivery.  The hospital received significant acknowledgement at the 2024 Bono Regional Health Services Excellence Awards during the 2024 Annual Performance Review Meeting organized by the Regional Health Directorate in Sunyani. Among the awards, Mr. Samuel Justice Tiah received the Most Outstanding Staff at the primary level, while the Medical Superintendent, Dr. Philip Taah-Amoako won the Leadership Excellence Award at the primary level. Additionally, the facility was adjudged the best-performing facility from the 2024 Annual Peer Review Excercise.  In 2024, Dr. Philip Taah-Amoako was adjudged the 2nd Runner-Up at the district level in the Nation...

High HIV Prevalence Rate Hit Berekum East Municipal. The Berekum East Municipal Health Directorate has intensified the campaign against HIV/AIDS prevalence rate among adults in the Municipality.   Bono region leads among the top 5 regions with the highest adult HIV prevalence rate of 2.12 per cent among the total general population in Ghana, which is 333,095 infected people with HIV. Among the top 5 regions with high adult HIV prevalence rate are Bono, Greater Accra, Eastern, Western North, and Ahafo regions, respectively, a survey conducted by the Ghana Aids Commission has revealed.  Among the districts in the Bono region, Berekum East Municipal tops in the highest HIV prevalence among the 12 districts in the region.  The Berekum East Municipal Health Directorate has intensified the campaign against HIV/AIDS prevalence rate among the adults in the Municipality. The Municipal Director of Ghana Health Services, Mr Jacob Kojo Aleeba at a press briefing explained that, men s...

Holy Family Hospital-Berekum Party's With Children Living With HIV/AIDS, Urging Them Not to Default in Medication.  All efforts to suppress the viral load of HIV/AIDS patients across the country has been a major concern of the National AIDS commission. Among the strategies to help achieve this agenda of reducing the viral load of children living with HIV/AIDS is what the Holy Family Hospital in the Berekum East Municipal of the Bono Region is working towards by bringing the children together as one body to organise an Xmas get together party for the children. Rev. Sister Rena V. John, the hospital administrator who sponsored most part of the programme emphasised that, it has been very difficult for most of the children to take their medication and the Xmas party is an adoption to help motivate the children living with HIV/AIDS in ensuring their regular taking of their medication to enable them to suppress the viral load in their system. Rev. Sister Anna Twumasi, a pharmacist at the...

Wenchi NPP Parliamentary Candidate Boafo Kojo presents medical equipments to Wenchi Methodist Hospital. The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate for Wenchi Constituency, Hon Boafo Kojo Frempong has presented medical equipments to Wenchi Methodist Hospital in the Bono Region. The items worth over GH¢ 400,000 included,20 hospital beds,20 mattresses,50 oxygen nasal prongs,3 seater link chair -5, ECG machine 1, Defibrator -2, adult ambu bag -1, patient monitor-1, examination lamb -2, infusion pumps -2, nebulises - 2, among other things. The items made up of 33   different assorted medical equipments. In a colorful ceremony for the presentation of the items at the premises of Wenchi Methodist Hospital on Saturday afternoon.Boafo Kojo Frempong expressed gratitude to Dr Addai Donkor, former Director of supply at the Ghana health service for facilitating the procurement of the items. He noted that the hospital beds and mattresses aimed to solve no bed syndrome at the Wenc...

Ehiamenkyene Residents Cry For Potable Drinking Water. The Residents of Ehiamenkyene, a farming community in the Fanteakwa South District of the Eastern Region are appealing to stakeholders and the government to as a matter of urgency, provide them with good drinking water to safeguard their health. According to them, they have never tasted or enjoyed potable water even though they are part of the country and have taken part in voting during elections. The residents who fetched water from a polluted stream made the passionate appeal during Alrich24newsgh.com news reporter Apelete Kofi-Michel, visit to the community. According to them, although their only source of water gets polluted with drain from the gutters whenever it rains, adding that they have no option but to stick to it. Some of the women noted that due to the nature of the polluted water, they get infected with communicable diseases such as cholera and guinea worm infestation. They lamented again that, during the dry season ...

Kintampo North Parliamentary Candidate Donate Set of Tire to Ambulance Service. The Municipal Chief (MCE) who doubles as the Parliamentary Candidate (PC) for Kintampo North Constituency of the Bono East Region, Hon. Isaac Baffoe Ameyaw aka Koola has donates 4 set of tires to the Kintampo North Constituency Ambulance Service to help in the health delivery services in the area. The center of Ghana which is Kintampo has had been series of accidents and their highway has become an accident prone area in Ghana.  In an act of community support and leadership, Hon. Isaac Baffoe Ameyaw, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Kintampo North and the Parliamentary Candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), donated the set of tires to help in the prompt services of the ambulance whenever there is an emergency situations in the constituency.  This timely gesture comes in response to the urgent need for replacement of tires of the constituency's ambulance, which had become outdated and un...

Some Detained Nursing Mothers at KATH Relief  of Medical Bills by Madam Rebecca Kaaley.  The Chairperson of God's Coming Kingdom Foundation, Madam Rebecca Kaaley has paid the medical bills for some nursing mothers who were struggling to pay their bills at A1 maternity ward at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. God's Coming Kingdom Foundation, the founder, Mr. Solomon Abronoma Nyarko, who based in Holland has through his non-governmental Organization- God's Coming Kingdom Foundation donated an amount of money to his team to pay the bills of the detained nursing mothers.  She said, the nursing mothers and their babies had recovered from their sickness but could not afford the bills presented to them. Some of the mothers were presented with medical bills of as much as Ghc 75,000.00. The Chairperson of God’s Coming Kingdom Foundation, Madam Rebecca Kaaley who donated and payed medical bills for the poor and needy at the hospital has been the secon...

Dormaa Presby Hospital partners KATH Eye Centre for free surgical eye care for Dormaa residents. The Dormaa Ahenkro Presbyterian Hospital in strong partnership with the Okomfo Anokye Teaching Hospital eye Centre supported by the Himalayan Cataract Project (HCP) have embarked on 4-days free surgical eye care to provide better eyesight to the people of Dormaa Ahenkro in the Dormaa Central Municipality of the Bono Region and its surrounding communities. Speaking to Newsmen, the General Manager of the Dormaa Presbyterian Hospital, Rev. Dr. Isaac Appiah Offei explained that about 13 eye specialists from the Okomfo Anokye Teaching Hospital Eye Centre in addition to other staff totalling a little over 40 are embarking on this free eye care program at the Dormaa Presbyterian Hospital, stressing that it's free of charge therefore patients must visit the hospital with only their Health Insurance cards to access a successful free eye care delivery. He added that, the members of Parliament for...

JAMAN SOUTH DISTRICT OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE SCHEME WAS THE TOPMOST BEST IN 2023. The sixteen (16) best most performing District Managers across the six(16) Regions in Ghana.  The Municipal Manager of National Health Insurance Authority in the Jaman South, Mr Maxwell Mahama is grateful to the Almighty God for the wisdom, courage and boldness he has granted him and the staff for emerging as the best District in the Bono Region and represented the Bono Region in the five(5) days Health Policy Analysis programme at the University of Ghana Business school, Legon campus.  Out of the ten (10) national health insurance schemes in the Bono Region,  it is a pleasure and honour to be the topmost manager and together with my collaborative and hardworking staff, we emerged as the best District for the year ended 2023. I thank all the key actors within the national health insurance ecosystem for making it possible for the Jaman South District of the NHIS, most especially, the...

Emel Foundation an NGO Donates to Support a Lady for her Cancer Treatment. The joy of Mary Saah and her family knew no bounds at the weekend as the Emel Foundation an NGO came their way in the form of a GH¢1000 donation from the founder of the foundation, Emmelia Hagar Essel, for the treatment of their daughter’s cancer ailment. 21-year-old Mary was diagnosed with cancer of the shoulder and had been in serious pain for months until she was taken to the Wenchi Methodist Hospital where Essel saw aid her. Presenting the pecuniary in an envelope to Mary at Tuobodom, in the Bono East Region, Essel said she was touched when she learnt of the lady’s plight. The Emel Foundation is a Non-Profit Organisation that provides financial and item assistance to people who are vulnerable and who cannot afford their bills.  The Public Relations Officer (PRO) for the foundation, Reuben Appiah-Kubi, in an interview with the media said that 10th March is selected every year for the donation cause of the...

Optometrist Advises People on Presbyopia, A Common Eye Problem Affecting 40 Years and Above Ages. An Optometrist Dr. Smith-Mensah at the St. Ignatius Eye Center in the Berekum East Municipal of the Bono Region of Ghana has extended a word of advice to Ghanaians on a common eye problem named presbyopia. Speaking in an exclusive interview, Dr Smith explained that, presbyopia has been affecting a lot of people between the ages of 40 and above years but it can occur as early as 35 years.   He said presbyopia occurs in the eye of every individual at these ages when one finds it difficult to read in close range from a book, phone, computer or any other readable material somewhat far from the eye. Dr. Smith called on the public to seek medical consultation to treat their eye for presbyopia. He therefore advised that no one at the age of 35 or 40 years can run away from presbyopia henece we should seek an eye doctor's advice. He charged the public to take care of their eye since your ...

YAMFO COLLEGE OF HEALTH TEIN LEADERSHIP CALLED ON THE GOVERNMENT TO PAY OUTSTANDING TRAINEE ALLOWANCES. The leadership of Yamfo College of Health TEIN has expressed their displeasure regarding the ongoing issues surrounding the payment of allowances to health trainees by the government. According to the leadership, It is disheartening to note that the government owes health trainees two (2) years of allowance despite the sugar-quoted promises made after several engagements with the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Finance yet, there has been a failure to fully honour these commitments. They added that they are aware of the efforts made by the executives of the Ghana Midwives- Nurses Trainee Association engagement with the Ministry of Health and the Finance Ministry to address this matter but it is disappointing that the recent payment made on the 23rd of November, 2023 only covered 2 months of the arrears and was distributed to only 40% of the student population. The Leadership o...