Dr Leticia Appiah, the Executive Director, National Population Council, says teenage pregnancy is the main cause of Ghana’s youth unemployment and called for a holistic approach to address it.Dr Appiah stated that anything that supported population growth was linked to unemployment because teenagers gave birth to children who were getting into education while others drop […]
Prenatal exposure to household air pollution increased the risk for pneumonia in the first year of life, researchers reported in Chest. “Exposure to high levels of household air pollution due to cooking with biomass and other solid fuels remains common in the developing world,”Patrick L. Kinney, ScD,the Beverly A. Brown professor of urban health and sustainability in the […]
The World Health Organization has joined the Ministry of Health, the Ghana Health Service, and partners to launch the 2021 National Breastfeeding Week celebration under the theme, Protect Breastfeeding: A shared responsibility. This year’s event will focus on raising awareness and galvanizing action on protecting breastfeeding to improve public health. The week-long celebration will be […]
Rudder Communications, a Tamale based media and publishing company has presented a citation of honour to Ms Gifty Atampugbire, a Public Health Nurse at the Bolgatanga Municipal Health Directorate of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in the Upper East Region. The Nurse was voted by members of the public as the 2020 Most Influential Person […]
Ms Gifty Ampah, the Coordinator for Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition Programme of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), said nutrition is the bedrock for proper human growth and encouraged Ghanaians to patronise local foods. She said lack of good nutrition produced weak populations, hence the need to eat well-balanced diets, regularly. “Sometimes when we […]
