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The Director-General of the Service , Dr. Samuel Kaba Akoriyea, led a delegation comprising some Directors of the Service to the residence of Her Excellency Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, former First Lady of the Republic of Ghana.
The Service, through its Non-Communicable Diseases Programme, has held its maiden Breast Health Fair in partnership with its development partners. The event, held at Jamestown in Accra, drew hundreds of residents from nearby communities, marking a significant step in the Service’s effort to promote early detection and equitable access to breast health services.
The Ghana Health Service has officially opened the 2025 Senior Nursing and Midwifery Conference, a three-day event bringing together senior nursing and midwifery officers from across the country to deliberate on strategies for strengthening health service delivery.
The 3rd African Neurophysiological Society (ANS) Conference has opened in Accra, bringing together leading experts, researchers, and practitioners from across Africa and beyond to strengthen collaboration and innovation in neurological care
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is one of the fastest-growing health challenges in Ghana and around the world
As part of a series of workshops to build the capacity of clinicians and other frontline health staff to detect and report priority diseases, the Disease Surveillance Department of the Service has organised a two-day workshop on Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) and Mpox for staff drawn from public, quasi and private health facilities in the Greater Accra region
The Director-General of the Service , Dr Samuel Kaba Akoriyea, has paid a working visit to the Central Medical Stores (CMS) in Tema to familiarise himself with the facility’s operations, engage directly with staff, and identify existing challenges with a view to finding ways to resolve them.
Ghana records about 4,500 new breast cancer cases each year, with nearly half of those diagnosed losing their lives. Alarmingly, 60 to 70 percent of cases are detected at advanced stages, and only 4.5 percent of Ghanaian women have ever undergone a mammogram.
The Director-General of the Service , Dr. Samuel Kaba Akoriyea, has met with Ghana Health Service specialists , senior specialists, and consultants across various disciplines within the Greater Accra region to discuss ways to strengthen postgraduate medical training within the Service in collaboration with Ghana College of physicians and Surgeons
Dr. Akoriyea commended the team for their dedication and the progress made over the years in anaesthetic care
The award recognises leadership in advancing digital transformation and data-driven healthcare delivery across Ghana’s health sector.
As part of ongoing efforts to strengthen and enhance public health emergency preparedness and response in line with the International Health Regulations (IHR, 2005), the Service, through the Disease Surveillance Department of the Public Health Division and with support from the US CDC, AFENET, and KOICA, has organized a two-day Rapid Response Team(RRT) Training for national and selected regional teams.
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