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KATH CEO Commends Staff For Hard Work, Promises To Work on Welfare Programmes

1,324The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Professor Otchere Addai-Mensah has urged staff of the outfit to continue to offer their best in giving care to patients and visitors who come to the facility.  He noted that by doing this, they would be contributing to prolonging the lifespan of persons […]

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We’ll deal with unlicensed agencies recruiting nurses to UK – Labour Ministry

1,152The Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations has raised concerns about the recruitment of nurses for the United Kingdom by unlicensed Private Employment Agencies (PEAs). The Ministry in a statement condemned the exorbitant fees charged by the agencies as processing fees and vowed to deal with anyone found culpable. Below is the full statement It […]

Health Politics

Otiko Afisah Djaba Angry At NPP Government

866Otiko Afisah Djaba,former gender minister under Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo Addo’s government has stated that she has no regrets turning down an ambassadorial job in 2018 after she was removed as Minister of Gender at the end of the first term of the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government.The one-time New Patriotic Party National Women’s Organizer […]

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UGMC, PharmAccess Foundation launch ConvidConnect App

849    The University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and PharmAccess Foundation, has introduced a new care coordination service app, to effectively provide healthcare services for people with Covid-19. The app, CovidConnect, will offer individuals a range of services including care management and monitoring, to patients. CovidConnect will […]

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President Akufo-Addo cuts sod for vaccine manufacturing plant

1,434  President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has cut the sod for the commencement of work on the construction of DEKs Vaccines Ltd, a private sector-led consortium of Ghanaian pharmaceutical companies. According to President Akufo-Addo, the construction of the vaccine manufacturing plant “will help our nation realise the dream of becoming self-sufficient in the production and […]

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Dawadawa Impact Initiative, a solution to the food crisis in the country- Executive Director affirmed

749  Madam Lilian Afre Sika, the Acting Executive Director of Dawadawa Initiative, has stated that, statistics has shown that, Food insecurity in Ghana affects about 50% of the total population. According to her, the World Food Programme has attributed it to inefficient food systems in the rural areas which are mostly dominated into the agricultural […]