October 9, 2025 Health 0 Comment The Minister for Health, Mr Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has launched the National HPV Vaccination Campaign, a significant milestone in the fight against cervical cancer, one of the leading causes of death among Ghanaian women. The campaign, running for five days, until Sunday, October 11, across all 16 regions, aims to […]
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September 17, 2025 News / Health 0 Comment The Ministry of Health (MOH) has organised a 3-day orientation and capacity-building workshop for board members and heads of its agencies. The purpose of the workshop was to equip leaders with the skills and competencies required to drive efficiency and accountability across the health sector. Addressing the participants, the Chief […]
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August 27, 2025 Health 0 Comment The Minister for Health, Mr Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has announced a GHC 50,000 cash support package for Mrs. Naomi Oyo Ohene-Oti, a Ghanaian Oncology Nurse who recently won the 2025 Aster Guardians Global Nursing Award. The minister announced this when the winner of the prestigious international award presented her accolade […]
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August 19, 2025 Health 0 Comment The Ministry of Health has condemned the attack on health professionals at the emergency department of Greater Accra Regional Hospital (Ridge). According to a statement released on Monday in Accra, the ministry vehemently opposed any interference, violence, or assault against healthcare professionals. “The Ministry views this development with utmost seriousness, […]
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August 18, 2025 Top Stories / Health 0 Comment African leaders have declared the need for a reimagined global health order that empowers nations to lead resilient and self-sustaining health responses, marking a shift away from traditional donor-dependent models toward investment-driven systems. The declaration emerged from the Africa Health Sovereignty Summit held on August 5, 2025, in Accra, where […]
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August 11, 2025 Health 0 Comment President John Dramani Mahama has announced an additional GHC 50 million seed funding for the National Vaccine Institute (NVI). This will raise the total government support to GHC 75 million, as Ghana pushes to establish itself as a regional vaccine manufacturing hub. The President made this known on Wednesday during […]
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August 5, 2025 Health / Top Stories 0 Comment The current global health architecture cannot address the realities of climate shocks and their impact on health systems. Therefore, new health governance systems must then be adapted to this climate-challenged world. President John Dramani Mahama said this in his address at the Africa Health Sovereignty Summit in Accra, on Tuesday. […]
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Health 0 Comment The Minister for Health, Mr. Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has stated that health sovereignty cannot be outsourced. It must be lived, financed, built, and defended at home. He said the health sovereignty does not entail isolation; rather, it signifies the capacity to make impactful decisions, utilize domestic resources, and assert leadership […]
Read More Health / Top Stories 0 Comment President John Dramani Mahama has called on African sovereign wealth funds to allocate resources to biotechnology, diagnostics, and resilient health infrastructure as part of a broader strategy to reframe health spending as economic investment rather than consumption. Speaking at the Africa Health Sovereignty Summit in Accra, President Mahama argued that […]
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Health / News / Top Stories 0 Comment Africa’s health struggles should be viewed as providing depth of perspective rather than representing deficits. President John Dramani said this while reframing the continent’s narrative during the Africa Health Sovereignty Summit in Accra on Tuesday. “Africa’s pain is not a deficit. It is a depth of perspective. “Africa’s healing is […]
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