http://www.webremixed.info/ Aggregation of tags: health Webremixer http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15815 The Minister of Health, Major Courage Quashigah (rtd), says preventing ill health through good nutrition and hygiene was as important as curative measures such as the adequate supply of drugs and availability of health personnel and facilities. Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:41:41 GMT http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15815 2007-06-06T15:41:41Z http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15814 For the first time in four years, a five year plan has been created to ensure the continual implementation and efficiency of the National Health Insurance Council since its establishment. Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:40:08 GMT http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15814 2007-06-06T15:40:08Z http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15772 The West Akim District Chief Executive, Kwabena Sintim-Aboagye has pleaded with service providers of the National Health Insurance Scheme to show understanding and be patient with the scheme whenever there was a delay in the payment of medical bills. Thu, 24 May 2007 12:19:09 GMT http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15772 2007-05-24T12:19:09Z http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15757 Members of Parliament have drew attention to the inherent contradiction in anti-HIV/AIDS messages vis-à-vis the impact that such messages must have on the drive to reduce or totally do away with stigmatisation of HIV positive persons. Wed, 23 May 2007 10:13:05 GMT http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15757 2007-05-23T10:13:05Z http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15693 The World Health Organization has welcomed the decision of Abbott Laboratories to significantly reduce the price of an anti-retroviral drug, lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r). Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:30:26 GMT http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15693 2007-04-19T21:30:26Z http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15548 A strike by health workers in the Greater Accra Region has been largely ignored with many nurses and paramedics opting to care for patients. Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:34:50 GMT http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15548 2007-03-09T16:34:50Z http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15544 Mr Frank Agyekum, Government Spokesman on Governance, on Friday urged Ghanaians to guard the environment in order to save the nation's future generation. Sun, 04 Mar 2007 15:04:17 GMT http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15544 2007-03-04T15:04:17Z http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15541 The information, if accurate, would be unfortunate indeed because the ministry in particular and government have made the extra effort to enhance the salaries of all health workers Sun, 04 Mar 2007 14:56:31 GMT http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15541 2007-03-04T14:56:31Z http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15506 The crewmembers of Mercy Ship, a charitable organization worldwide, have constructed a multi-modern maternity ward for the Tema Polyclinic at the cost of nearly 120,000 dollars. Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:29:19 GMT http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15506 2007-02-21T11:29:19Z http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15425 The culling of over 150,000 birds at a farm in Suffolk is being completed this morning in an attempt to stop the spread of avian flu. The turkeys have been gassed at the Bernard Matthews site near Lowestoft, where the H5N1 strain of the virus was found. Mon, 05 Feb 2007 09:24:10 GMT http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15425 2007-02-05T09:24:10Z http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15398 Clients of the Ho Municipal Mutual Health Insurance Scheme are being given prescriptions for branded drugs allegedly by doctors at health centres instead of generic ones prescribed by the scheme. Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:11:20 GMT http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15398 2007-01-19T11:11:20Z http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15390 Accra - The Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital on Wednesday announced it has suspended the admission of new patients to the Surgical; Medical and Emergency Units of the Hospital until Sunday, January 21, 2007. Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:05:02 GMT http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15390 2007-01-19T10:05:02Z http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15386 A number of doctors in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis are to be probed for allegations of extortion under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:57:53 GMT http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15386 2007-01-19T09:57:53Z http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15382 A team to negotiate conditions of services of health sector employees has been inaugurated in Accra. Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:35:58 GMT http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15382 2007-01-18T11:35:58Z http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15370 Aflao - Delays experienced by traders and travelers across borders in West Africa has been cited as a major impediment to the World Bank supported fight against the HIV/AIDS in border communities. Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:25:44 GMT http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15370 2007-01-17T18:25:44Z http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15342 Sunyani (B/A) - President John Agyekum Kufuor has directed the Health Minister to submit to him a report on the guinea worm infestation situation in the Brong-Ahafo Region. Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:52:01 GMT http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15342 2007-01-16T23:52:01Z http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15297 NINE district assemblies in the Northern Region have received ambulances from the Ministry of Health. Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:52:53 GMT http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15297 2007-01-15T11:52:53Z http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15293 Asamankese (E/R) - The Founder and Leader of Christ Compassion Ministry International (CCMI), Apostle Joel Kofi Ayim, has described the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) as the best health delivery system the nation has ever adopted since independence. Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:51:10 GMT http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15293 2007-01-15T08:51:10Z http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15240 Poultry are still being moved, despite the official ban New cases of bird flu have been recorded on two farms in north-western Nigeria, officials say, a year after the disease was first found there. Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:46:54 GMT http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15240 2007-01-11T20:46:54Z http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15199 STREET foods, consumed regularly by low income residents of towns because of pressure of time, are a source of great potential danger to health Prof. Jacob Sangsore, Dean of the School of Research and Graduate Studies, has said. Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:10:01 GMT http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15199 2007-01-11T13:10:01Z http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15192 Accra - Stigmatisation should be strongly fought to help to reduce the HIV prevalence to the barest minimum, Professor Fred Sai, Presidential Adviser on HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health, said on Wednesday. Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:57:43 GMT http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15192 2007-01-11T08:57:43Z http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15177 Accra - The Water Resources Commission would launch an interactive website for Ecosystems Management in Africa to help in the preservation of some of the country's fast depleting freshwater biodiversity. Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:42:19 GMT http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15177 2007-01-10T09:42:19Z http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15166 GENEVA - Dr. Margaret Chan, the new director-general of the World Health Organization, appointed a Ghanaian as her deputy Tuesday. Tue, 09 Jan 2007 23:13:07 GMT http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15166 2007-01-09T23:13:07Z http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15161 The Kintampo Health Research Centre (KHRC) is to recruit 170 babies at birth for the second phase of the Malaria Vaccine Trial now ongoing in the Kintampo North and South districts of the Brong-Ahafo Region. Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:40:51 GMT http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15161 2007-01-09T18:40:51Z http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15130 Fifty-eight-year-old Ghanaian civil servant Kwaku Anku has been a smoker for over 40 years. Despite knowing the dangers of cigarettes, he has no intention of kicking the habit. After all, he says, his grandfather was a smoker and he lived to the ripe old age of 84. Mon, 08 Jan 2007 10:35:33 GMT http://www.highana.com/hgsite/health/read_news.php?nid=15130 2007-01-08T10:35:33Z