Local pharmaceutical manufacturers want the imposition of restrictions on the importation of basic drugs that are being produced in the country, so as to promote the local industry and make the vision of ‘Ghana beyond Aid’ a reality.
Indeed, the impact of COVID-19 on the economy and the realization that...
The National Occupational Safety and Health bill, a comprehensive bill that seeks to promote a safe work environment for all stakeholders, is still languishing at Cabinet-level after more than 30 years.
First introduced to Cabinet in 1989, the bill - according to Fred Ohene Mensah, Chief Inspector in Charge of...
Eastern Region became the eighth region to benefit from the on-going integrated recycling and compost plants being constructed across the country by Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL) and its partners, Komptech, in partnership with government.
With the exception of Greater Accra and Ashanti Regions whose plants have been inaugurated, work was...
The National Health Insurance Authority has introduced new features on the NHIS membership cards aimed at improving service delivery and to ease members’ obligation of replacing cards after every five-year mandatory replacement period.
Although the Authority has maintained the basic outlook of the membership card, the new features have an...
But unresolved concerns could hinder progress
All is set for full time academic work to resume across the country in both pre-tertiary and tertiary educational institutions after the Ghana Education Service (GES) and the Ministry of Education said they have put in place all necessary arrangements to ensure safety...
JarkWayne Missions, a US-based Non-Governmental Organsation, has conducted a free medical screening exercise for children at the Teshie Orphanage in Accra as part of its activities to combat the coronavirus disease as well as share love as the month of February is noted for.
The NGO also donated an undisclosed...
The nation’s plan toward achieving herd immunity by immunising at least 20 million people against COVID-19 by the end of this year is doable despite existing hiccups that have seen only 1 million doses of vaccine dispensed since the first week of March 2021, Head of the National Immunisation...
The World Bank has approved a US$200million Ghana COVID-19 Emergency Preparedness and Response Project Second Additional Financing.
In collaboration with the COVAX Facility COVID-19 vaccine acquisition, the project will provide financing to support government procure and deploy COVID-19 vaccines for 13 million people in Ghana.
The project will also strengthen resilience...
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...
Broll Ghana Limited has as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) made an unspecified amount of cash donation to Ghana Reconstruction of Anomaly and Trauma Fund (GRAFT) Foundation
Speaking to B&FT at a short ceremony to present the cash donation on Wednesday, 06 October 2021, Kenneth O. Mensah, Head...