Source: www.ghanaweb.com A murky $150 COVID-19 test contract awarded to Frontier Healthcare Services Limited (FHSL) incorporated in Ghana on July 21, 2020 – just 40 days before President Akufo-Addo opened the air borders – has set tongues wagging. FHSL is embroiled in an ownership suspicion as it’s linked to a company […]
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Health Care Delivery Hit By Nationwide Strike
The strike action by nurses and midwives in the country is hitting hard on healthcare delivery in the Ashanti region as most health facilities have shut their doors to patients. A visit to some government health facilities by the Ghana News Agency on Tuesday morning revealed that patients have been […]
What causes high cholesterol? Dairy, smoking, genetics, and more
Read the story from where it originally appeared According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cholesterol levels should be no higher than 200 mg/dL. Yet, an estimated 95 million US adults have levels higher than 200 mg/dL, and nearly one-third of them have extremely high cholesterol levels beyond 240 […]
Are chicken eggs good or bad for my cholesterol?
Answer From Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, M.D. Chicken eggs are an affordable source of protein and other nutrients. They’re also naturally high in cholesterol. But the cholesterol in eggs doesn’t seem to raise cholesterol levels the way other cholesterol-containing foods do, such as trans fats and saturated fats. Although some studies have […]
Nurses’ strike intensifies in Upper East Regional hospital
Source: GNA The nationwide strike action declared by the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) and its allied Associations in public health facilities has intensified at the Upper East Regional Hospital in Bolgatanga. The usually busy Out-Patient Department (OPD) of the Regional hospital was very quiet as at 1300hours when […]