Tema Boys Chewing Rabbit Grass To Enlarge Their Manhood
Some youth in Tema Manhean have resorted to the chewing of ‘rabbit grass’ to enlarge their manhood in a bid to engage in “satisfactory” sex. The Ghana News Agency gathered that the young boys wash and chew the root of the grass popular known as “juice” which is said...
Ebola Scare: Nigeria Intensifies Screening of Inbound Passengers at International Airports
The Federal Government has ordered health workers to intensify screening of passengers coming into the country as part of deliberate efforts to check possible spread of Ebola virus. The deadly virus resurfaced in DR Congo a couple of days ago. The Minister of Health,...
Dead bodies kept in ‘kiosk mortuary’ at Bongo hospital
Health experts have raised concerns about a steel kiosk being used as a mortuary at the Bongo District Hospital in the Upper East region, warning it could trigger a far-reaching epidemic in the area. The dreaded structure, erected in 2004 and meant for only 3 bodies...
MP intervenes as Bongo fetches ‘polluted’ water for deliveries, surgeries
The midnight robbery in March of a water pumping machine at the Bongo District Hospital, which resulted in relatives of patients drawing untreated water from afar for deliveries and surgeries, has attracted not just an intervention from the lawmaker of the area but...
Cholera Cases Hit 200 In Central Region
Reports Reaching the Daily Heritage from the Central Regional capital, Cape Coast, indicate that more than 200 cases of cholera have been recorded in the various health facilities in the region, depicting an increase from the initial figure of 157 cases. The most...
Mental Health Crisis: Who Really Cares?
Ghana's mental health system is currently on its knees as nurses at the biggest mental health facility, Accra Psychiatric Hospital, have embarked on an exercise dubbed #StayAwayFromDanger in protest of bad working conditions which tend to affect the efficiency of...
Accra Psychiatric nurses begin indefinite strike over dangerous working environment
Nurses at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital have declared an indefinite strike, claiming that working at the facility poses a major risk to them. The strike which starts on Monday, October 31 is also to push the government to provide the facility with the basic logistics...
Cape Coast University develops Breast Cancer detection device
The Department of Chemical Pathology of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) has developed a breast cancer detection device for women in Sub-Saharan Africa. The device known as “Breast Eye” is able to detect suspicious breast lumps in women and give accurate results for...
Ridge Hosp ‘almost totally new’ – Bawah-Mogtari
The Ridge Hospital project “is an almost totally new building that has been constructed”, the Campaign Spokesperson of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said. Debunking claims by the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) that the project was...
You Might Be Killing Your Partner Slowly
It is a fact that people live their lives around their spouses. They live together in the same house, they join the same car to work every morning, go to the same church and also attend other social functions together. Husbands eat the food cooked by their wives and...
Accra Psychiatric Hospital halts admissions
The Accra Psychiatric Hospital has suspended admission of new patients at the facility. The hospital has been compelled to take the decision due to lack of funds to support its operations. According to the Communications Director for the hospital, Mr. Emmanuel Febiri,...
11 WAYS SITTING AT YOUR DESK ALL DAY IS SLOWLY KILLING YOU
Is sitting all day making you a sitting duck for serious health issues? According to Harvard Health Publications, too much sitting has been linked to everything from osteoporosis to heart disease to diabetes. So if you feel like you're wasting away in your...
Trainee nurses bounce government paltry ghc150 allowance
The Ghana Nurses and Midwives Trainees Association has rejected government’s offer to pay them GHc 150 monthly as allowances. According to them, the amount is woefully inadequate per the memorandum of understanding they signed with the Ministry of Health in 2014. The...
Methodist Youth Fellowship, Accra Diocese Donates to Children Hospital
The Accra Diocesan Youth Fellowship of the Methodist Church Ghana on Saturday 18th June,2016 organized a cleanup exercise at Princess Marie Louis Hospital, popularly known as Children Hospital in Accra. The Cleanup exercise was as part of the Fellowship's 70th...
Cigarette plain packs to ‘go global’
Plain packaging for cigarettes is about to "go global" in a move that will have a "huge impact" on health, the World Health Organization says. The body said moves to introduce standardised packaging in the UK, France and Australia will influence policy around the...
Community Health Nurses strike pointless
The Ministry of Health has said the intended strike by the community health nurses today, May 31, 2016, is pointless considering the efforts it has already put in place to address their concerns. Over thirteen thousand community health nurses are expected to lay down...
Brong Ahafo Region top mental patients on street
Mental health authorities in the Brong Ahafo Region have expressed worry over the rising number of mental health patients roaming the streets in the region, especially its capital. Over 600 mental patients are said to be on streets of the region. The figure has gone...
Concern Zika causes baby eye problems
Scientists studying the Zika outbreak in Brazil are becoming increasingly concerned the virus may cause eye damage in babies. Stanford University researchers found abnormal bleeding and lesions in the eyes of three infant boys whose mothers had caught Zika while...
Ghanaian Children Lack Basic Vaccination
One in every five children in Ghana still do not receive all the basic vaccines they need despite the country’s significant achievements in immunisation. According to the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI), progress in vaccination coverage in recent years had...
Dreaming brain rhythms lock in memories
Disrupting brain activity in sleeping mice, specifically during the rapid eye movement (REM) phase, can stop the animals remembering things they learned that day, a study suggests. It is the clearest evidence to date that REM sleep is critical for memory. By switching...