The Northern regional director of the Ghana Health Services (GHS), Dr. John Bertson Eleeza, has stressed the need for the public to collaborate with GHS and state agencies to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to him, the collaboration with authorities will help curb the issues affecting lives and the economy...
Sekyere Rural Bank Limited at Jamasi in the Sekyere South District of Ashanti Region has presented Personal Protective Equipment, PPE, and disinfectants to three hospitals in the bank’s operational territories.
The beneficiary health institutions include Jamasi Health Center, Agona Asamang SDA Hospital and Pope John Paul ll Medical Center at...
As part of efforts to stem imminent outbreaks and spread of the novel coronavirus, the Techiman Municipal Assembly in the Bono East Region has resolved to create eleven temporary satellite market centres to ease congestion at the city’s main trading centre.
The creation of satellite market centres will be preceded...
The world is at risk of widespread famines "of biblical proportions" caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the UN has warned.
David Beasley, head of the World Food Programme (WFP), said urgent action was needed to avoid a catastrophe.
A report estimates that the number suffering from hunger could go from 135...
The Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government will be holding an extraordinary session through videoconference scheduled for this morning at 10am Universal Time.
The Heads of State will be discussing the ‘Situation and Impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic in the ECOWAS Region’.
The Ministers in Charge of Finance...
Almost three billion people still rely on open fires or inefficient stoves to cook, filling their homes with harmful smoke and increasing their vulnerability to respiratory infections.
People exposed to air pollution are more likely to die from COVID-19 than people living in areas with cleaner air, according to a...
An expert in supply and value chain management, Professor Douglas Boateng, has intimated that the best way to fight the coronavirus (COVID-19) is to tailor-make solutions to complement the economic architecture of a country.
According to him, globally, there is no ‘one size fits all’ strategy answer to the pandemic....
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has cut sod for the construction of the first ever 100-bed Isolation and Treatment Facility in the country funded by the COVID-19 Private Sector Fund.
The project, which is located at the Ga East Municipal Hospital and Ghana’s National Coronavirus Treatment Centre, is going...
Absa Bank Ghana has partnered the University of Ghana Career and Counselling Centre (UGCCC) to provide online learnings for all their final year undergraduate students through the bank’s ReadyToWork e-learning programme.
The partnership which is in line with Absa Bank Ghana’s Education and Skills Development programme under its Force for...
The Nkoranman Rural Bank Limited at Seikwa in the Tain District of Bono Region has donated sanitary items to various institutions across its catchment area to help stem the spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The items, estimated at GH¢10,000 were made up of 25 veronica buckets and accessories, 25...