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IGP AND POMAB COMMEND POLICE HOSPITAL STAFF FOR SERVICE TO THE PUBLIC DURING STRIKE BY GRNMA. The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Christian Tetteh Yohuno and some members of the Police Management Board today, 13th June, 2025 paid a working visit to the Police Hospital, Accra to appreciate the hospital administration and staff for their effective management of the high numbers of patients who turned to the hospital to seek medical attention during the strike action by the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association. The Medical Director of the hospital, Commissioner of Police, Dr. Otu Nyarko who received the IGP and his team informed them that over the past one week, the hospital saw over 300% increase in the number of patients who visit the hospital to access medical care. A similar situation was reported at the Police Hospital, Kumasi and other Police clinics across the country. He added that even though this brought some pressure on the hospital, contingency measures were put i...

Strike Suspended: Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwive's Association Suspend Strike. Source: Alrich24newsgh.blogspot.com

World Day of the Sick Celebrated as Holy Family Hospital Commissions Mother and Child Centre in Berekum. The Catholic Bishop of the Sunyani Dioceses, Most Rev Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi has extended a word of advice to health professionals to exercise restraint in their dealings with the sick people. Speaking at the Holy Family Hospital in Berekum during the World Day of the Sick Celebration, he called on Doctors and Nurses to work with care to avoid negligence of duty in their services. He said, the hospital through their internal generated fund and from the support of others has constructed the mother and child center to boost the maternal and child health care for the purpose of economic and social development.  The world Day of the sick celebration was used to commissioned the new Mother and Child Centre at the Holy Family Hospital. The Medical Director of the Hospital, Dr Frank Gyamfi added that, the hospital is doing all that they can to ensure maternal health is improved from preg...

Suhum MCE Distributes Sanitary Pads to Mark Menstrual Health Day.  The Suhum Municipal Chief Executive, Hon. Lydia Obenewaa Sarah has distributed  over 1,000 sanitary pads to adolescent female students from a cluster of schools in the Suhum Municipality in Eastern Region. She said the distribution of the sanitary pads is in fulfilment of the government's promised to supports all school-going menstruating girls to stay clean and healthy. She also announced plans to distributes more sanitary pads within the month. Menstruation is a normal and healthy part of life for women. Yet, as a normal as it is, menstruationis stigmatized around the world. We hope to change the negative perceptions of menstruation and menstruating girls, Lydia Obenewa. Hon. Obenewaa sensitized and demonstrated on menstrual health, highlighted essential hygiene practices menstruating girls must observe and urged for strict adherence to avoid infections. Do not use chemicals to wash your private parts during ...

ILLEGAL MINING LINKED TO BREAST CANCER SURGE IN EASTERN REGION, DR. WIAFE ADDAI WARNS. A recent study has established a disturbing link between the environmental contamination caused by illegal mining ("galamsey") and the alarming increase in breast cancer cases in the Eastern Region. This stark warning was issued by Dr. Beatrice Wiafe Addai, CEO of Peace and Love Hospitals and Founder of Breast Care International, during an oncology training workshop held in Kumasi for senior journalists and morning show hosts from the affected region. Dr. Wiafe Addai revealed that research conducted in collaboration with the University for Development Studies (UDS) in Somanya and sponsored by Teva Pharmaceuticals has found that toxic chemicals utilized in illegal mining have severely polluted water sources in the Eastern Region. This contamination, she asserted, is a significant factor driving the surge in breast cancer diagnoses, particularly in communities located near mining operations. ...

Tain District Hospital Celebrates 60 years of Improve Healthcare Delivary and CT Scan Machines Procurement. In a remarkable display of medical expertise and compassion, a team of surgeons has performed major surgeries for over 25 patients at Tain District Hospital, marking the facility's 60th anniversary celebration.  The free plastic surgery conducted by Ghanaian surgeons with support from medical experts from Ohio was funded by Compassion International Ghana, a non-governmental organization dedicated to transforming lives. Patients, including an 18-month-old girl, were discharged after undergoing almost three hour's surgeries for cleft lip and palate. Other beneficiaries were also treated for haemangiomas, keloids, and contractures from burns, syndacty, polydactyly, and other deformities. Dr. Salim Mancho, a plastic surgeon based in Ohio, USA, explained to Kaakyire Kwasi Afari of Sunyani-based Ark fm that cleft lip and palate are birth defects that occur when facial structure...

NPP Dr. Kwasi Nyame Baafi Fires Back at Sunyani East MP and MCE During GNMTA – ASHBA ZONE Congress. A moment of political tension marred at the 32nd Annual Delegates Congress of the Ghana Nurse-Midwife Trainees Association (GNMTA) – ASHBA Zone, when Dr Kwasi Nyame Baafi, lecturer at GIMPA and Technical Advisor to the former Vice President, firmly responded to remarks made by the Sunyani East MP, Hon Seid Mubarak and Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Hon. Vincent Antwi Agyei, known members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). The congress, held at the GRNMA Hotel in Asufufu, Sunyani, was under the theme: “Empowering the Next Generation Through Strategic Leadership Development and Policy Advocacy for Nursing and Midwifery Excellence.” During their remarks, Hon. Vincent Antwi Agyei and Hon Seid Mubarak claimed that the NDC does not make empty promises like the NPP, sparking discomfort in what was intended to be a non-partisan gathering. Dr Nyame Baafi, who chaired the event, did not ...

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...