Globally, Pink October is an annual campaign where awareness of breast cancer’s causes, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment are raised. Even though breast cancer is often found in women, some men also get it but it is usually detected in a later stage. The most common type of breast cancer is Invasive Ductal Carcinoma where the […]
Author Archives: Cepace Ghana
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Oct
WHAT IS POLIO? Polio is a contagious disease that can be prevented by administering a polio vaccine. HOW MANY DOSES OF ORAL POLIO VACCINE (OPV) DOES A CHILD NEED TO BE FULLY PROTECTED FROM POLIO? In Ghana, under the Expanded Programme of Immunization, every child must take four doses of OPV and one dose […]
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The Cape Coast Teaching Hospital in collaboration with Roche Ghana and other partners has subsidized mammogram services in the health facility by up to 50%. Ultrasound to detect breast cancer would also be free this October and medications would be covered by the National Health Insurance Scheme. Dr. Ngedu, the Chief Executive Officer stated that […]
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Neonatal mortality cases in the Eastern Region of Ghana is on the rise as the figure increasesto 291 with 21 more deaths than last year. The major causes have been prematurity, low birthweight, infections amongst others.Dr. Joycelyn Assibey disclosed that mothers and caregivers who applied cow dung orpepsodent on the umbilical cord to hasten its […]
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Dr. Kodua, a paediatrician with the Healthy Kids Foundation has stated that children ages 6 months to 5 years with severe fever can easily get seizures. She stated that there has been a surge in diarrhoea, malaria, and cold cases amongst school children.She advised parents with children who had fever, malaria, or cold to first […]
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Girls Iron-Folate Tablet Supplementation (GIFTS), is an initiative between Ghana HealthService, Ghana Education Service and the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund(UNICEF) and other key partners to supply folic acid supplements to adolescent girls weeklywhether in or out of school.This is to boost the blood levels as research indicates that adolescent girls needed more ironand folic […]
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