An oil-funded project at Breman, in the Suame Municipality of the Ashanti Region, has become a ‘sticking point’ between authorities of Suame Municipal Assembly and the Breman West Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Hospital. The unoccupied two-storey bedroom apartment completed almost a year ago and financed with an Annual Budget Funding Amount...
November or movember, you say? For a vast number of the populace movember’s significance in the calendar is still a mystery. For those mystified individuals, movember came to life 14 years ago in 2003, created by a few friends over a beer in Melbourne, Australia. You might think, how sloshed...
By Godson Kofi DAVIES The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data analytics into the field of public health has paved the way for a transformation in how policymakers approach health crises and manage resources. The era of data-driven decision-making in public health is marked by the ability to...
as FDA receives €2.8m support from EU, GIZ Ghana’s agenda to become a Pan-African vaccine manufacturing hub has received a further boost with an agreement for institutional and technical support to the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) by the European Union and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation...
The Akim Lodge of Ghana, number 28, has donated items worth GH¢20,000 to Akim Oda General Hospital in the Eastern Region. They also donated GH¢5,000 to the hospital to help defray the cost of some patients who were unable to pay their bills. WM Paul Obeng, who led a team to...
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), Ghana has once again chalked a major milestone on the African continent. At the just-ended 9th African Medicines Regulators Conference in Kigali, Rwanda, the FDA was designated a Regional Center of Regulatory Excellence (RCORE) in Vaccines Regulatory Oversight in Africa by the Africa Union...
Due to fear of the COVID-19 Omicron variant spreading, Zoomlion Ghana Limited has undertaken thorough disinfection operations at all airports across the country. The exercise was simultaneously carried out on Tuesday, December 14, 2021 and covered the Kotoka International Airport (KIA), Greater Accra; Kumasi Airport, Ashanti; and Tamale Airport, Northern...
The Lumiere Group International (LGI) and the Chamber of Pharmacy, Ghana have announced the establishment of US$200 million COVID-19 Relief Fund to foster medium and long-term financial stability of pharmaceutical sector in Ghana. The agreement, in the form of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), formalises the mutual interaction between the...
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has confirmed the reopening of schools for final year students of public universities and senior high schools (SHS) while preparations continue for the return of final junior high school (JHS) students to complete preparations for their exams. Beginning tomorrow, operating with half class size,...
More Ghanaian nurses are in the process of securing visas to practice abroad, a situation most of them say is born out of poor working conditions in the country. Over the past year, there have been increased cases of Ghanaian-trained nurses and other health professionals travelling outside the country. A general...