Despite the suspension of a 10-day strike embarked upon by members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), patients have refused to go to hospitals...
Maharashtra state and its capital Mumbai are the current epicentre of the country’s infection spike. India’s Maharashtra state has announced tighter coronavirus restrictions including in the...
Former vice president, Atiku Abubakar has advised the Federal Government to, instead, use the $1.5bn proposed for the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt Refinery to...
Former vice president, Atiku Abubakar has advised the Federal Government to, instead, use the $1.5bn proposed for the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt Refinery to...
The industrial action embarked upon by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to press home their demands for improved welfare is taking its...
The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof Bolaji Owasanoye, SAN, has condemned the padding of budget by...
Despite attempts by government to provide health facilities across the country with Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), the issue of inadequate PPE still remains a challenge. Various health...
Medical workers tend to a patient at the intensive care unit for patients infected with the Covid-19 (novel coronavirus) at the AP-HP Ambroise Pare hospital in...
COVID-19 autopsy reports from the Ga East Municipal Hospital and the 37 Military hospitals in Accra have been released to provide pathological evidence for better understanding...
Three customs officers were abducted by Boko Haram, even as foodstuff and medicines were carted away by Boko Haram insurgents during a battle for the ‘soul’...
Health Minister-designate, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has disclosed that about 13 districts are yet to offer government lands for the construction of district hospitals across the country. This,...
Brazil’s prosecutor-general has opened a preliminary investigation into the country’s president and health minister for possible negligence in response to the COVID-19 outbreak in Manaus city,...
When COVID-19 first hit Ghana in March, the president declared a lockdown of parts of Accra, Tema and Tema metropolitan areas when total active cases hit 397. Today,...
The Nigerian Government has disclosed that it is currently contemplating a targeted lockdown in Lagos, Abuja, Kaduna and other major cities in Nigeria, as the number...
The Ghana Health Service Director-General, Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, has downplayed concerns that non-coronavirus cases are being turned away from public hospitals because of pressure on such...
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu has urged doctors to treat victims of gunshot wounds first before asking for any Police report. Mr....
Poised to improving health care services is the state through improved infrastructure, the Kogi State Government, through the ministry of health, has requested for expression of...
The Nyaho Medical Centre is expected to transfer all non-COVID patients at the facility to other hospitals to create more space for admission of persons infected...
A file photo of the NCDC Director-General, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said that Nigeria is reaching a critical...
Oyo State Government on Saturday warned owners of private health facilities against managing cases of COVID-19 in their health facilities. The government while warning private hospitals,...
The United Kingdom is making preparations in case London is overwhelmed by COVID-19 infections, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Thursday, amid reports hospitals in the...
File photo: A nurse prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on December 27, 2020, at Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon. PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA...
The critical care wards of major hospitals in Peru and Bolivia stand at or near collapse after end-of-year holidays, reflecting wider regional public health capacity concerns...
After collecting billions of dollars in the United States coronavirus aid, many of the nation’s wealthiest nonprofit hospitals are now tapping into disaster relief funds that...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration has denied reports that FCTA hospitals were currently rendering skeletal services due to the death of 20 medical doctors from COVID-19....
The United States recorded a new single-day record for COVID-19 cases on Friday, as a countrywide surge in infections has forced several states to reimpose restrictions...
Hospitals and health facilities in the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region are struggling to care for people wounded in a weeks-long conflict as medical supplies run...
Police officers patrol by closed archaeological site of the Hadrian’s Library in central Athens on November 7, 2020, on the first day of a three-week lockdown....
Retired Military officers of Ekiti State origin, who retired voluntarily from the Nigerian Military after prosecuting the civil war of 1967 -1970, have appealed to President...
Ekiti state government has sealed off five health facilities for allegedly operating below standards and engaging unqualified persons as staff. Some of the affected facilities included...
The government has announced that it will construct five 100-bed capacity district hospitals in the Upper West region. This was announced by President Akufo-Addo on Friday,...
President Akufo-Addo has announced for says seven districts in the Upper East Region will benefit from the government’s Agenda 111 in next 12 months. The agenda...
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has given an account of the principal activities being undertaken by his Government in the Western North Region in the...
The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) and its allied associations (Ghana Physician Assistants Association and Ghana Association of Certified Registered Anesthetics), have warned managers...
Forensic experts remove a corpse from the crime scene after Mexico City’s Public Security Secretary Omar Garcia Harfuch attacked in Mexico City, on June 26, 2020....
A file photo of Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum. Photo: [email protected] Governor Babagana Umara Zulum has approved the engagement of 84 medical doctors, 365...
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says Government has secured €71.5 million to construct and equip twelve (12) 40-bed hospitals, with the associated staff accommodation facilities...
During the 20-month undercover investigation, a PREMIUM TIMES journalist posing as a doctor referred several persons to leading diagnostic centres for medical tests. We covered the...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has given an account of the principal activities being undertaken by his government in the Bono Region in the last three-and-a-half years of...
Chief Medical Directors and Managing Directors of federal tertiary hospitals have been directed to “immediately” commence the use of consultants and doctors on the National Youth...
Iraq has recorded its highest single-day rise in COVID-19 cases since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, prompting authorities to warn hospitals may “lose control” in...
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted the Chief Medical Director, CMD, of the General Hospital in Idoani, Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State. The...
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have kidnapped the Chief Medical Director, CMD, of the General Hospital in Idoani, Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State. The...
Shortage of nurses, midwives and some other technical personnel has created a situation in Adamawa State in which cleaners and ward attendants now do some duties...
At least three main hospitals and half of the clinics in the Lebanese capital are not functioning following damage from last week’s devastating port explosion that killed...
Hospitals in Madagascar are struggling to cope with a surge of Coronavirus cases, Report reveals. This is coming after Madagascar’s herbal drug ‘COVID Organics (COV),’ which the...
Government has secured funding to construct 12 new hospitals across the country, the Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu has said. These hospitals are aside from the...
Filled with enormous gratitude to God for granting him life and good health to witness his 46th birthday, the Deputy Governor of Kogi State, Chief Edward...
Osun State Government has introduced fine for mosques, churches, hotels, bars, clubs that violate COVID-19 guidelines. The State imposed N250,000 for hotels, bars, clubs and N100,000...
The emergence of the COVID-19 disease has undoubtedly limited the amount of attention given to other ailments as Out-Patient Department visits to most facilities have drastically...
File Photo of Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule The Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, has commenced the distribution of hospital equipment worth over 300 hundred...
Hong Kong is on the verge of a “large-scale” outbreak that could collapse hospitals, warned leader Carrie Lam on Wednesday as strict new measures were implemented...
Newmont Ghana’s Ahafo mine has donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) worth GHS77,460.00 to the Brong Ahafo Regional Hospital in Sunyani and St. Elizabeth Hospital in Hwidiem...
The government has committed to ensuring all its plan to construct 100-bed hospitals in 88 needy districts, among other health interventions, is executed by local construction...
Government has revealed that the construction of hospitals in some 88 districts across the country will be awarded to only Ghanaian contractors. Delivering the Mid-year Budget...
A patient seriously ill with COVID-19 coronavirus is being treated at the Andohatapenaka University Hospital in Antananarivo on July 20, 2020. RIJASOLO / AFP ...
Hospitals in Brazil are struggling to cope with an influx of coronavirus patients, as confirmed cases have crossed the two million mark in the world’s second-worst hit...
Thousands of beds for coronavirus patients in Bangladesh are lying empty despite the country struggling with a rising caseload as people are too scared to enter...
The Lagos State House of Assembly has told Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to direct the state Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, to accredit more private hospitals...
A man sits next to beds at a newly built hospital to treat Covid-19 coronavirus patients at the Mahalaxmi Racecourse, in Mumbai on July 7, 2020....
The Federal Government is set to convert all “eligible” public and private hospitals nationwide to COVID-19 sample collection sites. This, according to the Minister of Health,...
Hello and welcome to Al Jazeera’s continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. I’m Kate Mayberry in Kuala Lumpur. Officials in Texas are warning that hospitals in...
The Oyo State government on Saturday said it has shut down five health facilities in Ibadan and Saki over illegal practices. The state task force on...
Alarming surges in coronavirus cases across the United States South and West raised fears Monday that the outbreak is spiralling out of control and that hard-won...
Residents and NGO staff in Monguno local government area of Borno State, in the northeast Nigeria, on Sunday said the attack on the town by Boko...
Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, says residents who do not wear face masks will be caned. The Ebonyi State government has announced plans to...
A dire picture is emerging of how the world’s second-most populous nation is coping with the coronavirus pandemic. India has nearly 300,000 cases, but the number...
Dr. Lawrence Sereboe, the Director of the National Cardiothoracic Centre has said COVID-19 should not scare people from accessing health facilities when they are sick. He...
Contrary to misconceptions on social media, the management of Abuja-based international-standard hospital, Cedarcrest has denied routinely admitting COVID-19 patients, saying it has no such plans at...
Three private hospitals have been accredited by the Lagos state government for treatment and management of Coronavirus cases. This was announced by the Lagos Commissioner for Health,...
Chief Executive Officer of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr. Daniel Asare, has revealed that most of the staff at the hospital have had to be moved...
The president has issued an emergency decree ordering factories to increase production. Source
A hospital worker (C) wearing a protective face mask and outfit, speaks with two ambulance doctors wearing yellow protective suits at the Grigor Lusavorich Medical Centre...
Some youth in the Sunyani West Municipality of the Bono Region are demanding that one of government’s 88 proposed hospitals be sited in the area. President...
When Manit Parikh’s mother tested positive for the new coronavirus, she was rushed by ambulance to Mumbai’s private Lilavati Hospital, but officials told the family no...
Kwame Asare Obeng, popularly known as A Plus, has said that he doubts that the President will be able to fulfill the promise of building 88...
Since the Islamic holy month of Ramadan began in late April, Muzammil Ahmed’s doorbell has been ringing nonstop. Every year for Ramadan, the Muslim community in...
COVID-19 has killed more than 15,000 in Brazil and reported infections have surpassed those in Italy and Spain. Experts say with a lack of testing, these...
From a hospital on the edge of the Navajo Nation to the suburbs of the nation’s capital, front-line medical workers in coronavirus hot spots are struggling...
The Ho teaching Hospital has reopened its Accident and Emergency Unit after it was closed down temporarily on Monday for disinfection, following the resuscitation of a...
Dr. Osagie Ehanire, the Minister of Health on Tuesday disclosed that accreditation to treat Covid-19 patients had been given to more private hospitals in Lagos and...
The Catholic Bishop Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has offered over 400 health facilities across the nation to now be used as COVID-19 isolation centres. Chairman...
The coronavirus pandemic arrived at a pivotal moment in the US healthcare, just as scrutiny over hospital pricing and practices was gaining traction, including at the Democratic...
A youth group called the Koforidua Youth Association which is made up of residents in Koforidua and the diaspora have donated personal protective equipment to the...
The Ghanaian Doctors and Dentist Association – UK (GDDA-UK) has donated PPE worth 52, 500 to the Lekma and Yendi Municipal Hospitals. The Association also donated...
Governor Umar Ganduje of Kano State has warned Public Hospitals in the State to stop sending patients back home else the state would be plunged into...
The Mental Health Nurses Group (MHNG) in Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital has petitioned President Nana Akufo-Addo to consider the construction of psychiatric hospitals across the country in...
The Mental Health Nurses Group (MHNG) in Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital has petitioned President Nana Akufo-Addo to consider the construction of psychiatric hospitals across the country in...
The Federal Government on Monday said hospitals were rejecting sick patients in Kano State. The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 announced this in an update...
Vodafone Ghana has marked International Workers’ Day with a donation of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and medical supplies to three hospitals as part of efforts to...
A Special Aide to former President John Dramani Mahama, Lawyer Edudzi Tamakloe believes President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo deliberately chose to honour his promise of building a Cathedral to...
“The enemy is not one another, the enemy is this virus”“The virus is the enemy and not one another.” The COVID-19 broadcasts Last Sunday night, Ghanaians...
NDC Communications Officer, Sammy Gyamfi says President Nana Akufo-Addo’s pledge to construct 88 district and 6 Regional hospitals in the country is nothing but a “fake...
“The opposition NDC struggles with self complex problems- they give up easily,” National Organizer of the ruling New Patriotic Party(NPP) Sammi Awuku reacted to the largest...
Seth Terkper says it will be a tall order securing funds for President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s promised 88 district hospitals and 6 regional hospitals. Mr....
A queue of cars are seen at the Maseru Bridge border post between Lesotho and South Africa on March 24, 2020. Molise Molise / AFP. ...
Some opposition Members of Parliament, are questioning how President Akufo-Addo intends to build 88 hospitals in various districts without health facilities and another six in the...
The Ranking Member on Parliament’s Health Committee, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh has urged government to focus on completing abandoned hospital projects in the country instead of starting...
A global health expert has said government should focus on finding immediate measures to combat Covid-19 instead of building medical facilities to fight the virus. Adjunct...
Joyce Bawa Mogtari has advised President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to make use of the hospitals built by former president John Dramani Mahama. According to the...
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