Health officials in Ghana have confirmed cases of Lassa Fever at one of its major health facility called the Tema General Hospital, not far from the capital city, Accra.
The story of a Nigerian Physician, Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye who joined a team of doctors from Texas to perform a special surgery on a baby in a woman’s womb has gone viral on social media.
Health officials in the southern African country said the children died after suffering acute food poisoning believed to have been caused from turtle meat.
As a recent study from the World Health Organization pointed out, the so-called "'fake drugs" come in a variety of forms. There are the substandard drugs, which perhaps wouldn't pass quality tests due to a manufacturing error or because they have already passed their expiry date.
Young girls in Ghana who are in their menstrual periods have been prevented from crossing a river in the country’s central region. The chiefs in the Upper Denkyira East community in central Ghana have said that the directive was from the river god.
The government of Tanzania has carried out its threat of preventing pregnant schoolgirls from attending public schools by arresting five pregnant teenagers and their parents.
It is the hope of every patient who goes in for surgery to come out alive and healthier, but that hope is slimmer for African patients, according to a new research.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified obsession with video games as a mental disorder in its latest classification of mental health conditions.