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Dr Prince Hamid Armah, the Deputy Minister of Works and Housing, has launched a road map to promote the use of low-carbon construction materials and decarbonize the building and construction sector by 2050.

The step has become necessary due to the hi…

The Ghana Health Service and its partners are embarking on another Polio Vaccination Campaign as they seek to break the transmission of the disease in Ghana.

In the Ashanti Region, the Regional Health Directorate is targeting 1,042,361 children in t…

Dr. Gifty Amugi, the Director of Public Health at the Western Regional Health Service, has called on parents to fully adhere to routine Immunization and Vaccination schemes to ensure that children under five are fully protected.

She said, children u…

The office of the Presidential Candidate of the NPP, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has organised a health screening exercise for about 3,000 people in the Evaloe-Adjomoro-Gwira Constituency of the Western Region.

They also benefited from a health insurance r…

More than 14,000 people have been vaccinated against mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as part of the vaccination campaign launched in early October, the country’s health ministry said on Monday.

Since the beginning of the campaign…

The Hunger Project (THP), in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has stepped up their efforts to combat breast cancer by screening more women for the potentially fatal illness.

The screening was part of the Maternal and Child Health I…

The Lordina Foundation, led by former First Lady, Mrs Lordina Mahama, has donated medical equipment and supplies to the Afife Health Centre, located in the Ketu North Municipality of the Volta Region.

The donation, worth millions of cedis, is intend…

The Atronie Health Center in the Sunyani Municipality has launched a ‘Network of Practice’ (NOP) to strengthen collaborations between health facilities in the area to achieve better health outcomes.

The NOP is an initiative of the government being im…

Mrs Joana Gyan Cudjoe, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary Candidate for Amenfi Central, is set to organise a health screening exercise to help improve upon the well-being of students within the Constituency.

The week-long initiative…

Dr Francis Agyei, a Psychologist with the Fred N. Binka School of Public Health, University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), says mental health is not mental illness, but one’s state of well-being.

He said the mental health state of individuals …

Hope for Future Generations (HFFG) has called for an all-year-round breast cancer screening and awareness campaign by stakeholders to reduce breast cancer cases in the country.

The Organisation also urged churches, mosques and the media to sustain th…

As Ghana marks yet another National Fitness Day on Saturday October 12, PATH Ghana, a global non-profit organisation dedicated to achieving health equity, is encouraging Ghanaians to prioritise physical activity to stay healthy.

Regular physical acti…