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The Navrongo Health Research Centre (NHRC) in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality of the Upper East Region has launched a new study into a point of care diagnostic device for easier and faster diagnosis of sickle cell disease in children. The NHRC with funding from Novartis in collaboration with the Ghana Health…
Professor Fiifi Ofori-Acquah, President of the Ghana Sickle Cell Foundation, says the Foundation since its establishment in 1995 has identified and treated 9,000 children with sickle cell disease through screening of newborns. He said those children would have lost their lives if not identified and treated. Prof. Ofori-Acquah said this…
The G.N.S Foundation, a Non-governmental Organisation, has held free sickle cell screening and education for the girls and management of South Labone Girls Vocational Training Centre. The screening exercise, which formed part of activities to mark World Sickle Cell Day, was on the theme “Achieving Equity in Health Care Access…
Dr Paul Enin, the Chief Executive Officer of Airport Women’s Hospital, has called for more support for sickle cell patients to improve their quality of life. Sickle cell is a blood related condition where the hemoglobin inside red blood cells sticks or clumps together, causing the cell to become fragile,…