The West Africa correspondent of Nairobi’s Daily Nation reports that Guinea’s health ministry said the deaths were reported in the south of the country, close to the borders with Liberia and Cote d’Ivoire. At least one person is hospitalised in Conakry for treatment. Officials are awaiting a second test of results to confirm whether it is Ebola or not. […]
By Raphael Nyarkotey Obu, PhD The Traditional and Alternative Medicine draft bill 2014 defines alternative medicine as any form of treatment that is outside the mainstream allopathic and Traditional Medicine in Ghana. In 2000, Parliament enacted a Traditional Medicine Practice Act, (ACT 575). The purpose of the mandate of the Traditional Medicine Council as stated in […]
By Pearlvis Atsu Kuadey “I thought cancer was only for adult, very old people. I never knew of a child having cancer until my son was diagnosed and died of cancer”. “When our seven years old daughter was diagnosed with cancer, we couldn’t afford treatment. It is too expensive, so we brought her home. Unfortunately, […]
By Nasra Bishumba The number of people who have contracted cancer since 2015 has more than doubled, rising from 2,115 cases to 5,040 in 2019, the Director of Cancer Diseases Unit at the Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC), Marc Hagenimana, has said. Speaking to The New Times in a telephone interview, Hagenimana said that the numbers […]
By Shelleygan Petersen Leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, is perceived as a forgotten or biblical illness, yet new cases continue to pop up in Namibia annually. The centres for Disease Control and Prevention describes leprosy as a chronic infectious disease caused by mycobacterium leprae, which mainly affects the skin, the peripheral nerves, the mucosal […]
