The National Blood Service (NBS) has announced that Ghana is ready to prepare convalescent plasma (CP) from recovered COVID-19 patients for transfusion as an empirical treatment for persons in life-threatening stages of the infection. The intervention is based on a research that patients who had recovered from disease outbreaks such as COVID-19 had a robust immune response to infections. […]

The Speaker of Parliament has directed all members and staff of the House to be tested for coronavirus. In his welcome address as Parliament resumed sitting Tuesday, Prof Mike Oquaye assured members and all staff that the necessary steps will be taken to protect them. “In addition to observing the established protocols, I have directed […]

The Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA), Joseph Krampah, has revealed that some medical personnel in the Brong Ahafo have to wash and re-use their surgical masks which is dangerous According to him, these are disposal masks but health workers are forced to re-use them because of the unavailability […]

More than 5.8 million subscribers (70 per cent) of the National Health Insurance Scheme, last year, renewed their membership through the Mobile Renewal System, boosting the renewal rate by 9.1 per cent. This is the highest to be recorded since the introduction of the social intervention in 2003 as it offers ease and convenience to […]