The Ashanti Regional Health Directorate has adopted a child focused strategy as part of efforts to build a sustainable COVID-19 recovery in the region. The Directorate with funding support from the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), has supported 16 selected basic schools in the region to sustain their school health…
The Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists (GAMLS) has appealed to the government to, as a matter of urgency, establish a fund for public health emergency preparedness to deal with unexpected pandemics.
The second round of the National Polio Immunisation Campaign begins on Thursday with the Ashanti Regional Health Directorate targeting the immunisation of more than 1.2 million children. The exercise, which ends on Sunday, October 9, seeks to vaccinate children under five years against vaccine derived polio type two (cVDPV2) across…
PATH Ghana, implementing partners for the Healthy Heart Africa Programme in Ghana, has partnered the Ghana Health Service to conduct health screening on hypertension at Sofoline in the Kwadaso Municipality. The exercise is part of activities to mark World Heart Day, which is celebrated globally on September 29, to create…
A project seeking to fight cervical and breast cancers in the Ashanti Region has been launched in Kumasi with a call on stakeholders to join the fight against the deadly diseases. Dubbed; “Women’s Health Initiative”, the project seeks to design, develop and demonstrate a scalable service delivery model that improves…