Pfizer on Thursday said it would extend until 2030 a drug donation programme aimed at eliminating trachoma, an eye disease responsible for blinding or visually impairing nearly two million people worldwide. The US pharmaceutical company co-founded the International Trachoma Initiative (ITI) in 1998, and has already donated nearly a billion […]

*From Yellow Fever infection despite free vaccination Story: News DESK The number of people who have died from the outbreak of Yellow Fever in the Savannah Region is now 22, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed. The Service said most of these victims were predominantly children who lived  closer […]

Ghana has confirmed five cases of the Monkeypox virus, the health service said on Wednesday (8 June). Monkeypox is a rare but potentially serious viral illness that can be transmitted from person to person through direct contact with body fluid or monkeypox lesions. Addressing the media on Wednesday, the director-general of the […]

Monkeypox is a rare but potentially serious viral illness that can be transmitted from person to person through direct contact with body fluid or monkeypox lesions. Less commonly, transmission can occur through respiratory droplets from prolonged face-to-face contact and from contaminated materials such as bedding or clothing. Symptoms of monkeypox include […]

A not-for-profit organization, Volta Health Network has been launched in Keta, in the Keta Municipality of the Volta Region. The organization mostly made of health professionals of Volta origin seeks to undertake initiatives aimed at making quality healthcare accessible to the underprivileged across the region.  The Volta Health Network held […]