Introduction The Institute of ICT Professionals Ghana (IIPGH), an association of professionals in the information and communication technology (ICT) industry in Ghana, has been following with keen interest recent conversations on social media and mainstream media with regards to stories linking the new mobile telephony technology called 5G to the...
GH¢500,000 presented to COVID-19 National Trust Fund Donates GH¢416,666 through bankers’ association Presents 2 ventilators worth GH¢300,000.00 to healthcare facilities Societe Generale Ghana has donated an amount of GH¢500,000.00 to the COVID-19 National Trust Fund. The gesture as reckoned by the bank is to help the government and therefore Ghanaians...
The novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19 has thrown the world into fear and changed our way is life, predictably, forever. Our conversations are now dominated by new catch vocabulary like “social distancing”, “lockdown”, “quarantine”, “remote working”, “working from home”, etc. As at the time of writing this piece, the...
To date, the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic has the unenviable tag as the most humanly devastating in history, infecting more than 500 million people, and killing at least 50 million people worldwide. Unfortunately, the pandemic also came with opportunities for self-styled chemists and medics to make regular appearances in...
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has said districts in the country without hospitals are expected to benefit from the construction of 88 new hospitals, targeted to be built to strengthen the local health infrastructure of the country. The construction of these new facilities, which is expected to be completed...
COVID-19 has produced the right opportunity for Ghana to produce its own medicines and medical equipment and stop relying on imports, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said. In his 8th address on the measures taken on the COVID-19 pandemic, the President thus urged the pharmaceutical industry to intensify its...
A total of 1,098,503 locally produced Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) has been delivered to the government, to enhance the fight against the coronavirus disease, the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has said. The President, during his 8th COVID-19 address to the nation, assured that the supply of PPE to health...
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has announced a two weeks further extension on the ban on public and social gathering, as part of measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease. This comes as Ghana's case count reached 1,550 with 11 deaths and 155 recoveries as of Sunday,...
The United States government has made available about 2,500 kilograms of medical cargo and supplies provided by the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit Three (NAMRU-3) Ghana Detachment. The items, delivered by the U.S. Air Force C-130J aircraft from the 86th Airlift Wing in Ramstein Air Base, Germany, which arrived at...
Professionals for Change (P4C), a political volunteer group, has supported the Ga East Municipal Hospital, at Kwabenya in the Greater Accra region, with essential medical supplies, as part of their contribution to curbing the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). The items, which were valued at GH₵27,000 and procured through the benevolence...