Tag: Kidney
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Embrace healthy living to save your kidney – Ghana Kidney Association to Ghanaians
The President of the Ghana Kidney Association (GKA), Professor Sampson Antwi, has emphasized the importance of embracing a healthy lifestyle among Ghanaians to safeguard...
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Ghana Kidney Association highlights affordability as major challenge in dialysis crisis
President of the Ghana Kidney Association, Prof. Sampson Antei, has expressed concern over the high cost of kidney dialysis, noting that it is...
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Many kidney patients losing their lives due to high cost of dialysis – KATH Nephrologist
The exorbitant cost of dialysis treatment has been identified as a major contributor to the high mortality rate among kidney patients at the Komfo...
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A substantial sum for survival: Paying GHC1,800 weekly, GHC7,200 monthly, just to stay alive
In Ghana, kidney patients have to undergo dialysis at least 2 or 3 times every week to remove waste products from their blood when...
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Fake advertisement of medicines contribute to high kidney cases – Chief of Adansi Nyankumasi
Nana Afawuah Dum II, the Chief of Adansi Nyankumasi, has blamed the sale of wrong herbal medicines for wrong ailments as a key contributory...
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Ho Teaching Hospital urges govt to include key treatment under NHIS
The head of medicine at the Ho Teaching Hospital, Prof. Yaw Asante Awuku, has urged the government to cover kidney disease treatment under the...
World
Afghanistan: ‘I drug my hungry children to help them sleep’
Afghans are giving their hungry children medicines to sedate them - others have sold their daughters and organs to survive. In the second winter...
Independent Africa
Gambian parliament will debate the cough syrup scandal
The Gambian parliament will hold an extraordinary session on Wednesday to discuss the deaths of nearly 70 children linked to cough syrups made in...
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Woman dies in Saudi Arabia after she was forced by boss to remove her kidney
A family is in pain and grief after their family member died three weeks after travelling to Saudi Arabia to work as domestic help.However,...
World
Kidney transplant : Changing kidney blood type may boost transplants
In a breakthrough that could enhance the supply of organs for transplant, researchers have effectively changed the blood type of the donor's kidneys.The discovery...
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