13 Ghanaian Medical Doctors, Others Benefit from Gov’t of India Training Programmes

Accra, Ghana, September 14, 2018//-13  Ghanaian medical doctors selected from four regional hospitals of the country namely, Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Sunyani Regional Hospital; and Tamale Regional Teaching Hospital are participating in four-week medical training programmes in India.

People Across Africa Have to Travel Far to Get to a Hospital. We Worked Out How Far

A small hospital in Wakiso district in the central region of Uganda. Shutterstock Paul Ouma, Kenya Medical Research Institute and Emelda Okiro, Kenya Medical Research Institute September 14, 2018//-Nearly half of all deaths and about a third of disabilities in low and middle-income countries could be avoided if people had access to emergency care.

South Africa: Ramaphosa Strikes, Orders Probe into Public Sector

Cape Town, South Africa, September 6, 2018/ — President Cyril Ramaphosa has authorised the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to investigate suspected wrongdoing by public servants and persons or entities in the private sector in the awarding of tenders or contracts by the national Department of Water and Sanitation and the Ekurhuleni and Ethekhwini metropolitan municipalities.

How Indigenous and Faith Healers Approach Mental Health in Ghana

Herbalists mostly recommend treating underlying physiological condition through herbal remedies. UNAMID/Flickr Lily Kpobi, Stellenbosch University and Leslie Swartz, Stellenbosch University September 4, 2018//-The use of non-biomedical methods to treat mental disorders in developing countries, like Ghana, has long been acknowledged. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that about 80% of people who need mental health […]