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Curious Minds Ghana Holds Colloquium On Health Data Governance In Accra

2,007  In keeping with advancing efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there is the need to spare no effort that especially involves the youth. It is for this reason that Curious Minds Ghana, a youth- led Civil Society Organisation recently brought together a diverse team of young professionals to dialogue on how the […]

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President Commissions 40MVA  Substation For KATH 

2,440  The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has commissioned a 40MVA power substation at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) to improve upon electricity supply and reliability at KATH and it surroundings. Apart from KATH, the project which was technically commissioned on 28th July, 2022, will improve power supply in the Central Business District (CBD) […]

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331,700 people suffer severe visual impairment in Ghana

2,235About 331,700 people suffer from severe visual impairment, representing 1.07 per cent of the country’s population. The Head of the National Eyecare Unit, Institutional Care Division of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Hornametor Afake, said another 229,400 people, about 0.74 per cent of the population, weretotally blind in the country. The prevalence of blindness […]