Q1: What are the benefits of getting vaccinated? The COVID-19 vaccines produce protection against the disease, by eliciting the development of an immune response to the SARS-Cov-2 virus. Developing immunity through vaccination means there is a reduced risk of developing a severe form of illness and its consequences. This immunity helps you fight the virus
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Development Director at the FCDO, Beth Cadman, and Health advisor Uzo Gilpin, has paid a field visit to some CRIB project implementation sites today They were joined by the CRIB team from CHAG which was led by the Executive Director, Dr. Peter Yeboah Upon arrival at the Hospital, the team was met by traditional leaders
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Akwatia – The Christian Health Association of Ghana (CHAG) with funding support from UKaid, is commissioning COVID-19 High Dependency unit (HDU) at the St Dominic Hospital in Akwatia. The HDU has been established to enable District Hospitals and smaller facilities in the Eastern region manage very severe COVID-19 cases without sending them to National Treatment
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The Executive Director of the Christian Health Association of Ghana, Dr. Peter Kwame Yeboah, has challenged hospital managers, especially in rural health facilities to ensure that quality is upheld at all times in the attempt to ensure continuity of essential health services amidst COVID-19 response. Dr. Peter Yeboah recognizing the national and global impact of
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80 religious leaders including Christian leaders, muslim clerics and traditional healers from 40 districts across the country converged last Thursday in Sunyani to receive training and orientation on covid-19 vaccines. Opening the two-day training, Dr James Duah, deputy director of the Christian Health Association of Ghana (CHAG) mentioned that the training had become necessary considering
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The maiden edition of CHAG’s COVID-19 and Institutional Capacity Building (CRIB) Project Newsletter is out now. The newsletter is intended to share interventions put in place to fight COVID-19 in 40 district hospitals and lessons learned with stakeholders, institutions, individuals, and health professionals. The CRIB Newsletter highlights in this edition information on the CRIB project,
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The Obuasi East District Director of Health, Delphine Gborgblorvor has cautioned residents of the District to continue to strictly adhere to the Coronavirus preventive protocols since the deadly disease is still with us. She mentioned that currently, 4 cases have been reported in the District. Madam Gborgblorvor made this call at the inauguration of District
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The Christian Health Association of Ghana(CHAG) has presented 1746 thermometer guns to the Ghana Health Service to support it’s efforts towards the fight against COVID-19 in the country. The presentation which was made during the CHAG’s COVID-19 Response and Institutional Capacity building (CRIB) meeting for district directors of health last Thursday in Sunyani. The meeting
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District directors of health have met to discuss complementing governments COVID-19 response and capacity building in over forty districts across the country. The meeting also dialogued on health systems strengthening to respond effectively to any similar future emergencies and disease outbreaks. The meeting came off last Thursday (October 15th, 2020) in Sunyani, under the courtesy
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Executive director of the Christian Health Association of Ghana (CHAG), Dr Peter Yeboah has reiterated that the best expression of condolences to members it has lost to COVID is to work harder to protect the vulnerable who have no idea COVID -19 is real. He was paying tribute to some frontline health workers who
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