More than 1,000 children in the Central Region have successfully received the new malaria vaccine, since the vaccination exercise started about two weeks ago. The Regional Director of Health Service, Dr Alexis Nang-Beifubah, said only three children had so far reacted to the vaccine. Speaking at a regional stakeholders’ durbar on Post Malaria Vaccine Implementation Programme (MVIP) in Abura yesterday, …

Cancer has been considered as one of the world’s most pressing health concerns, killing in excess of eight million people every year, more than HIV and AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. Dr Efua Commeh, the Ghana Health Service Deputy Programme Manager for Non-Communicable Diseases, who confirmed this said presently the commonest forms of general cancers in Ghana were the cervical, …