NDC disrespects persons with disability – Akomfrah
Communications Director of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Nii Armah Akomfrah has said the widely condemned response of presidential staffer, Sam George to the party’s wheelchair-bound General...
View ArticleMost pregnant women prefer delivery through caesarian section
Pregnant women have been advised to go through spontaneous vaginal delivery (SVD) because that is the best method. Mrs Jovial Nyarko-Ababio, a midwife in-charge of the Sunyani Regional Hospital labour...
View ArticleSickKids-Ghana Scaling Up Paediatric Nursing in Ghana
AGENDA Opening remarks at noon Dr. Mike Apkon, President & CEO, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Funding announcement Member of Parliament, Lois Brown, Parliamentary Secretary to the...
View ArticleFloods kill at least 40 people in Malawi and Mozambique
Flooding from heavy rains have killed at least 40 people in Mozambique and neighbouring Malawi, where a state of natural disaster was declared Tuesday in nearly a third of the country. In Mozambique,...
View ArticleAfigya-Kwabre ups health promotion efforts
The Afigya-Kwabre District Assembly has increased its efforts at promoting access to healthcare through the upgrading of health facilities and supply of equipment. Mr. Kwaku Oppong-Kyekyeku Kaakyire,...
View ArticleSouth Sudan foes agree to end conflict
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and rebel commander Riek Machar have signed a deal, committing to end the conflict that has devastated the country. The ceasefire agreement was signed at talks in...
View ArticleIslamic State shows burning of hostage, Jordan vows ‘earth-shaking’ response
AMMAN (Reuters) – Islamic State militants released a video on Tuesday appearing to show a captured Jordanian pilot being burnt alive, and Jordan vowed to avenge his death with an “earth-shaking”...
View ArticleBreaking News: Veteran Gospel Musician Comfort Annor Is Dead
Veteran gospel musician Comfort Annor has been reported dead today at the Komfo Anokye Teaching hospital today around 5pm. The musician who currently cried for help to support her as her kidney and...
View ArticleWANTED: WOMAN STEALS GH¢ 470,000…AND BOLTS AFTER RECEIVING POLICE BAIL
A 37 year old woman is on the wanted list of the Ghana Police Service for stealing GHC 470,000 from a reputable financial company. On 4th January, 2014, the suspect Joyce Oduro who was an Investment...
View ArticleRussian opposition leader Nemtsov shot dead
MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Nemtsov, a charismatic Russian opposition leader and sharp critic of President Vladimir Putin, was gunned down Saturday near the Kremlin, just a day before a planned protest against...
View ArticleTeen killed by police had four gunshot wounds
DENVER (AP) — An autopsy shows a 17-year-old girl who was killed by Denver police officers while driving a stolen car suffered four gunshot wounds. In a report released Friday, the Denver medical...
View ArticleAsuboi teachers’ bungalow, basic schools overrun by bats
A colony of bats has invaded the lone teachers’ bungalow and classrooms at the Asuboi Municipal Assembly basic schools in the Offinso South Municipality of the Ashanti Region. Some teachers of the...
View ArticleKidney diseases on the increase in Ghana – Expert
Cases of kidney diseases are on the increase, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Dr Dominic Kumashie, the Medical Doctor in-charge of Police Hospital’s Dialysis Centre, said on Thursday. He said in 2013...
View ArticleGhana News – Kidney patients queue to receive treatment at Police Hospital
Inadequate equipments at the Dialysis Centre of the Police Hospital in Accra is causing kidney patients to wait in queues for long hours to receive treatment. Medical Officer in charge of the dialysis...
View ArticleKantanka Dam?…What do you think GHANA?..
Kantanka Dam?…What do you think GH?. First and foremost, I will thank the most high God for the gift of such a noble man for the motherland Ghana. I know and believe that he is God sent, I pray that...
View ArticleFire ravaged Kumasi fuel station had no permit – EPA
It has emerged that the fuel station at Agric Kokode in the Ashanti Regional capital Kumasi which caught fire and resulted in the fiery deaths of two children on Sunday had no permit to operate. Isaac...
View ArticleKATH Burns Unit records five deaths
The Intensive Burns Care Unit of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), the nation’s second largest referral facility, recorded five deaths during the first quarter of the year. The victims were...
View ArticleAcid-attacked NPP chairman dead
Starr News has gathered that the Upper East regional chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) who was showered with acid last night has died. Adams Mahama was attacked by two unidentified men...
View Article90 babies die daily & 30,000 annually
In Ghana, one newborn dies every 15 minutes, and 90 die daily. In all, as many as 30,000 newborns die annually before reaching the first month of life. The major causes of these deaths are...
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