47 health stories in the last 24 hours from 18 newsrooms, including Graphic Showbiz, 3News, Ghanaian Times. Most covered: GRIDCo probes Mallam substation fire as power restoration continues. Tone this week: 36% negative, 38% positive (how we measure it).
Years of singing, serving in church and ministering through worship have culminated in a new milestone for contemporary gospel artiste and registered nurse Stacy Mense, who is gaining attention with her debut single, W’ahyira Me. Released on July 13, 2026, the song has received radio…
President John Dramani Mahama has commissioned a new 85-bed ward complex at the Ghana Police Hospital in Accra
MORE than half of blindness cases recorded in Ghana are caused by cataracts, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has disclosed. Head of the Eye Care Unit at the GHS, Dr Hornametor Afake, said cataracts account for an estimated 140,000, representing 54.8 per cent of the…
ABOUT 70 to 80 per cent of breast cancer patients in Ghana are diagnosed at an advanced stage when treatment is complex and survival rates are lower. According to the Breast Society of Ghana (BSG), breast cancer, when detected early, is highly treatable, with survival…
THE Ghana Medical Trust Fund (GMTF), popularly known as Mahama Cares, is an important addition to Ghana’s health financing system. Established under Act 1144 in July 2025, it provides financial support to eligible patients who need specialised treatment for conditions such as cancer, kidney disease,…
MORE than 300,000 workers, including nurses, doctors, teachers and civil servants, are on strike across the Republic of Ireland. It comes amid an ongoing pay dispute between public sector workers and the Irish government, with a further strike planned on October 21. It is expected…
How an F1 pit stop inspired changes to hospital care that have helped save lives ever since.
Pope Leo XIV's recovery from surgery to remove a lower lobe of his lung is "progressing as expected", his doctors have said.
Health authorities in the Upper West Region have intensified efforts to contain the spread of yellow fever through a reactive vaccination campaign targeting three districts following an outbreak that has heightened fear and uncertainty among residents.
A midwife at the Manhyia District Hospital, Hajia Memuna Ezzedin Muntaka, has urged women and girls to make regular breast self-examination a priority to improve early detection and increase the chances of successful treatment of breast cancer.
Akoma FM’s commitment to making a difference in the lives of its listeners has yielded positive results, following a public appeal that raised more than GH¢30,000 and other essential items for Diana, a heavily pregnant woman who lost all her belongings in a fire outbreak…
Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has acquired new equipment for its Drug Manufacturing Unit to improve production efficiency, strengthen quality assurance and enhance the safety of medicines produced for patients. The equipment, comprising a peristaltic medicine filling machine and a particle inspection machine, is expected to…
Toluwanisings death rumours spread after an eyewitness described a gospel singer being rushed to hospital, while Pelumi Olanjengbesi and Woli Agba weighed in.
An eyewitness who took his wife to the same hospital as Toluwanisings has described in detail what he saw, with his account sparking massive attention online.
A VIRAL video circulating across social media platforms shows armed men inside a medical facility playing with hospital equipment, with captions asserting that they are terrorists operating in an abandoned community in Northern Nigeria.
A law that keeps missing its shift Every working day in Ghana, a bricklayer climbs unguarded scaffold, a factory hand reaches into an unshielded machine and a nurse ends a 8-hour shift or more with no one checking whether she is safe .
The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) is investigating a fire outbreak at its Mallam substation after a fault affected one of the facility’s transformers in the early hours of Wednesday, October 14, disrupting electricity supply to parts of Accra.
Hospitals, the National Health Insurance Scheme, disease outbreaks, nurses and doctors, and health policy in Ghana.