Health

The Food and Drug Authority is investigating the poisonous fish incident in the Kpando Municipality in the Volta Region which led to the death of four persons. The FDA said checks in some markets in that area showed that traders avoided the puffer fish which is believed to have caused …

Hundreds of newborn babies are at risk of contracting polio, one of the six killer disease, as health facilities across the country ran out of the important vaccine to check it. The shortage has been necessitated by government’s high indebtedness to UNICEF, the international body that procures the critical vaccine. …

Staff of the Pantang Psychiatric Hospital have called off their strike following an intervention by the Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman Manu. They had earlier resolved not to return to work until government addressed the total take over of the frontage of the hospital by private developers. Speaking to the …

The Government of Ghana has transferred about $10 million to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for the procurement of polio and measles vaccines for the country. This follows the shortage of the vaccines in the country over government’s indebtedness to UNICEF, the international body that distributes the vaccine across …

Nursing mothers in Ghana would have to wait until next week before having their babies vaccinated against Polio and Measles following the shortage of the vaccines in the country. This is because Ghana owed the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the international body that procures the vaccine, a huge sum …