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Health Ministry congratulates Mintah Akandoh on election as WHO Committee B Chairman
The Ministry of Health has congratulated Health Minister, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, following his election as Chairman of Committee B of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Doctors facing occupational hazards due to no-bed crisis — Dr Asare Offei
Dr Asare Offei, Chairman of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital Doctors’ Association, has warned that medical practitioners face significant occupational risks due to the country’s persistent no-bed syndrome.
Herbal medicine now widely accepted and safer in Ghana — CPMR
The Head of the Clinical Department at the Centre for Plant Medicine Research (CPMR), Dr Mavis Boakye-Yiadom, says herbal medicine in Ghana has evolved significantly and is now widely accepted, safe, and increasingly integrated into mainstream healthcare. Speaking on the Super Morning Show on Tuesday, March 24, she not...
Are our gyms saving lives or quietly becoming sites of preventable death?
A man enters the gym to improve his health and leaves in an ambulance or worse, dies in the very place meant to keep him alive. The irony is brutal. The modern gym was supposed to symbolize discipline, vitality, prevention, and longevity. Instead, reports of sudden collapses, cardiac arrests, and unexplained deaths dur...
Medicine Society calls for fair process, cautions against blaming health workers in Amissah death report
The Emergency Medicine Society of Ghana (EMSOG) has strongly cautioned against what it describes as the selective focus on individual healthcare workers in the handling of findings related to the death of Charles Amissah, insisting that the “no bed syndrome” is fundamentally a systemic failure rather than the fault of...
France confirms its first case of Ebola
France has confirmed its first case of Ebola through a doctor who had returned from a humanitarian mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The doctor was “immediately admitted to a specialised facility” and is in a stable condition, the French health ministry said on Wednesday. DR Congo announced an Ebola outbreak...
Church of Pentecost launches major free surgeries, specialist healthcare outreach
The Church of Pentecost has launched the second edition of its Medical Missions Outreach programme at Abesewa, a farming community in the Ashanti Region, to provide free life-saving health care and evangelism services to vulnerable residents. Scheduled for October 2 to 18, 2026, the outreach is expected to deliver free...
‘Shire’ or ‘Ayilor’ sold on Kumasi markets found contaminated with dangerously high lead levels
A recent study by scientists at the Soil Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-SRI) has found geophagic clays sold on markets in Kumasi to contain dangerously high levels of heavy metals.
GHS tightens surveillance after Hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship in Cape Verde
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says it has stepped up surveillance and preparedness measures following reports of Hantavirus infections detected on a cruise ship currently docked in Cape Verde. In a statement issued on May 8, 2026, the Ministry of Health and GHS said the outbreak on the vessel, as of May 7, includes ei...
Farmers’ burning practices deepen air pollution and environmental crisis in Ghana
Experts are raising urgent concerns over the widespread practice of burning crop waste and trees to clear farmlands across Ghana, warning that it is fueling a growing public health and environmental crisis. Burning just one kilogram of crop residue produced smoke levels more than 100 times higher than the safety thresh...
Ebola risk raised to ‘very high’ in DR Congo
The public health risk from the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been raised from "high" to "very high" by the World Health Organization (WHO).
GHS Director calls on stakeholders to solve doctor deficit in Ahafo Region
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) Director for Ahafo Region, Dr. Akosua Owusu-Sarpong, has appealed to stakeholders to help address the persistent deficit of medical doctors in the region. Speaking to ADOM NEWS during the 2025 Annual Health Sector Performance Review held in Hwidiem, Dr. Owusu-Sarpong revealed that several...