Accra, Ghana—1win, in partnership with Adjah Cancer Support Ghana, sends Christmas donations to over 200 cancer patients and their families in Accra, Ghana.

A Nutritionist with the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Catherine Adu-Asare, has called on Ghanaians to eat healthy foods to avoid contracting non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which, she said, were difficult to address.

The Japanese Organisation for International Cooperation for Family Planning (JOICEF), an International non-governmental organisation, has handed over a maternity unit to the management of the Akateng Health Centre and the Ghana Health Service (GHS) at a ceremony at Akateng in the Upper Manya Krobo District of the Eastern Region.

The Technical Director at the Mental Health Authority, Dr Edward Appah, has stressed the importance of strengthening mental health support systems across the country.

The KGL Foundation, a non-profit organisation and the Corporate Social Responsibility arm of the KGL Group, has announced plans to transform the Accra Psychiatric Hospital through a comprehensive renovation project aimed at creating a safer, more comfortable and therapeutic environment for patients.  

If there is any particular disease that a lot of people agree to suffer from, then it is typhoid fever. But when probed further, they admit to all kinds of symptoms except fever.

They only refer to the disease as typhoid. What they forget is that the disease, they claim to be suffering from, is known as typhoid fever. 

Thus, without the symptoms of fever, it is highly unlikely that one will be suffering from typhoid fever.

A non-Governmental Organisation, the Ghana Non-communicable Diseases Alliance (GhNCDA) has urged the government to commit greater resources towards the prevention of non-communicable diseases and to ensure easier access to treatment, care and support for such cases.

The Head of Nursing at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Gifty Aryee, has urged the hospital's nurses to use their roles to inspire patients to embrace life.

An associate member of the Chartered Institute of Human Resource Management, Ghana (CIHRM), Dr Issaka Lawerh Tetteh, says the continued relegation of the mental health of employees at workplaces to the background is inimical to the success and vision of companies and the country as a whole.

The Ladies Club of Koforidua Taxpayer Service Centre (TSC) of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has provided free sanitary pads to teenage girls in three deprived basic schools in the Eastern Region to improve their menstrual hygiene, especially when in school.

The Shen Yang and Shen Yuet Children's Heart Foundation has made a generous donation of essential items, including bags of rice, toiletries, and detergents, to the National Cardiothoracic Centre (NCTC) at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra. 

Johnson & Johnson (J&J), a pharmaceutical firm, has partnered the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) Cancer Foundation to fight prostate cancer among men in the country.

The Manya Krobo Divisional Queenmother at Kpong in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region, Manye Maku I, has expressed gratitude to the Ensign Global College at Kpong for the institution’s massive support for the health centres project currently ongoing.

The Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) has launched efforts to establish the KBTH Innovation Hub as its Centenary Legacy Project. 

A Total of 88,000 schoolchildren from the Bono Region have been trained on dog bites, rabies prevention and management.

Former first Lady Lordina Dramani Mahama has inaugurated a renovated health centre at Hohoe Adabraka in the Volta Region.

The old structure has been transformed to provide additional service space for patients and healthcare workers. 

Former First Lady, Lordina Dramani Mahama, has organised a free health screening for members of the Assemblies of God Retired Ministers and Spouses Association in Accra. 

In Ghana, the average working hours are typically 40 hours per week, which translates to eight hours a day for five days. 

However, the reality for many workers often involves extended workdays, with some employees regularly working more than eight hours. 

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed 196 cases of cholera in four regions – Greater Accra, Eastern, Central and Western, with 21 deaths. 

The confirmations were done from 2,389 suspected cases the GHS recorded across the country.

Growing up, I lived with my grandparents in a small village called Akyem Awenare in the Atiwa West District of the  Eastern Region, and every aged person who was mentally unstable was labelled as a witch or a wizard.