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  11.09.2020     HEALTH       Ghana's Active Cases Now 836; Two More Die  LISTEN     SEP 11, 2020 Ghana has recorded two new COVID-19 related deaths. The death toll currently stands at 285. The Ghana Health Service in its latest COVID-19 update on Friday, September 11, 2020, also announced that the country has recorded 75 new cases. Meanwhile, the active cases in Ghana have dropped from 842 to 836. Ghana has within the last seven months recorded a cumulative figure of 45,388 COVID-19 cases with 44,267 recoveries. Out of the number of active cases, four are in critical condition, two are on ventilators and 14 in severe condition. Since the outbreak of Coronavirus in Ghana in March 2020, a total of 451,590 tests have been conducted. Currently, four regions out of the 16 have no active cases of the virus. The regions are North East, Savannah, Upper West and Upper East Regions. — citinewsroom

  05.09.2016     FEATURE ARTICLE         2 KNUST Partly To Blame For Ineffective Practice Of Herbal Medicine By Medical Herbalists In Ghana By  Bentil Emmanuel Asare    LISTEN     SEP 5, 2016    2  COMMENTS The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in September 2001 commenced a Bachelor of Science degree in herbal medicine at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences with the aim to train health professionals (Medical Herbalists) who will provide primary healthcare using scientifically validated herbal medicines. Although this was the first of its kind in Africa then and still is, Medical Herbalists were already being trained in countries like New Zealand, United Kingdom (UK), etc for years, with arrangements made in terms of internships, induction ceremony, regulation, in relation to practice after training by institutions that run the programme. This hasn’t been the case with...

  22.07.2015     FEATURE ARTICLE         4 NHIS, A Necessity For Herbal Medicine Development In Ghana By  Bentil Emmanuel Asare    LISTEN     JUL 22, 2015    4  COMMENTS The ”cash and carry system” of health delivery where patients were required to pay at every point of service delivery before being attended to even with emergencies at available health facilities was replaced with a health insurance scheme by the government of Ghana with a goal to provide equitable access and financial coverage for basic health care services to its citizens. The scheme known as the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) was passed into law in 2003 with an establishment of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) to oversee its operations in Ghana. There exist three main categories of health insurance under the scheme with the district mutual health insurance scheme which is operational in every district in Ghana being...

  07.06.2015     FEATURE ARTICLE       Microbial Loads In Herbal Medicines By  Bentil Emmanuel Asare    LISTEN     JUN 7, 2015 Medicines are substances in which when taken into the body takes particular pathways and causes biological changes to the benefit of animals and humans. Pharmacokinetics is the term used to describe routes medicines use when taken into the body. These include; Absorbtion, Distribution, Metabolism, and Excretion (ADME). Medicines taken orally (through the mouth) are absorbed after administration ( solid forms are first broken down to increase surface area for absorbtion) from the digestive system. The portal vein (a type of blood vessel) then carry the absorbed principles to the liver before it reaches the rest of the body. The liver then reduces the concentration of these medicines such that only a small amount is available for transport throughout the body by the circulatory system to their site of act...