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331,700 people suffer severe visual impairment in Ghana

2,189About 331,700 people suffer from severe visual impairment, representing 1.07 per cent of the country’s population. The Head of the National Eyecare Unit, Institutional Care Division of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Hornametor Afake, said another 229,400 people, about 0.74 per cent of the population, weretotally blind in the country. The prevalence of blindness […]

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Laboratory technicians warn government against privatization of hospital Labs

1,829  Government has been called upon to suspend the move to privatize the various laboratories in government health facilities for consultations and dialogue with medical laboratory unions. The Unions demanded to know if the move would render them redundant, retreanched or throw them out of job. The call was made by the General Secretary of […]