GLICO, the one-stop shop for insurance and financial services in Ghana, has donated various essential items to the Ghana Prisons Service to assist in measures taken to prevent spread of COVID-19.
The essential items included large quantities of Veronica-buckets, gallons of hand-sanitisers, boxes of vitamin C tablets and thermometer guns.
In...
The COVID-19 Private Sector Fund has supported Ghana’s National Coronavirus Treatment at the Ga East Municipal Hospital with secondary to tertiary Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to aid the fight against spread of the coronavirus.
The presentation was made last week at a brief ceremony at the premises of the Ga...
A student of SOS-Herman Gmeiner International College, Ms. Chloe Elinam Mawuenyega has donated GH₵12,000 to support the Sickle Cell Foundation of Ghana (Foundation).
The 15-year-old, through a car wash fundraising activity raised the said amount and presented a cheque to the Foundation in Accra last week.
The activity forms part of...
A Senior Medical Laboratory Officer at the GPHA Clinic, Gideon Lamptey has called on the general public to desist from the stigmatization of health workers in particular in order not to demotivate them to stop serving the public against the spread of the COVID-19.
“I want to take this opportunity...
The Institut Pasteur de Dakar (IPD) and the Mastercard Foundation have announced a historic US$45million partnership named MADIBA (Manufacturing in Africa for Disease Immunization and Building Autonomy), a significant step toward achieving vaccine manufacturing autonomy in Africa.
The multi-year project, aimed at developing and building a world-class workforce to support...
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has announced a partnership with Accra Medical Centre Ltd. (AMC) to help the health service provider expand its operations in Accra and in Takoradi in the Western Region of Ghana, where modern facilities are more limited in a bid to increase access to affordable,...
A recycling plant in Tanzania’s port city of Dar es Salaam has traded paper for plastic bottles and started making anti-coronavirus face shields that are being snatched up by hospitals and health centres nationwide.
Until earlier this year, Zaidi Recyclers had a thriving business in processing waste paper which it...
Data from the Ghana AIDS Commission indicates that 20,068 new HIV/AIDS cases were recorded in the country during 2019 from the 19,000 recorded in 2018. Out of this, AIDS-related death was estimated at 13,616.
Children between 0-14 years constituted 2,972 cases, representing 15 percent of the new cases recorded; the...
 Over 300 Customers at the Adenta Business Centre of ASA Savings and Loans have benefitted from a health screening exercise.
They were screened for Hepatitis B, malaria, blood sugar, blood pressure, body mass index (BMI) and other vitals, such as temperature, respiratory rate while there was doctor consultancy.
According to Mr....
