Stuck at home because of the lockdown, 25-year-old Ugandan Richard Kabanda is worried about feeding his family. The motorbike taxi driver, who used to earn about $2 (£1.60) a day, has had no work since the government banned public transport last month as part of measures to slow the spread...
Chemico Limited has supported the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR) with GH₵50,000 toward its research activities in the fight against COVID-19. The company had earlier presented a cheque for GH₵100,000 to the COVID-19 National Trust Fund to support the government’s effort in curbing the spread of coronavirus. The donation,...
Our world today is dealing with a crisis of monumental proportions. The vicious, novel coronavirus is wreaking havoc across the globe, destroying lives and ruining livelihoods.  The primary cost of the pandemic as seen in the loss of human lives is distressing, but the secondary effects on the global...
The Minister for Health, Mr. Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, has assured that government has not abandoned any health facility under construction by the previous government as speculated by a section of Ghanaians after the 8th Address to the nation by President Akufo-Addo. He said government has constructed and completed 10 polyclinics in...
The Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has affirmed that the sound economic base achieved by the government over the last coupled of years has enabled it to efficiently make the interventions announced to combat the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic in the country. He said a strong and resilient economy...
The Minister of Health, Mr. Kwaku Agyeman Manu, has said work will soon start on the uncompleted Komfo Anokye Maternity and Children's block, in Kumasi. Addressing the journalists, during the regular press briefing by the Ministery of Information, he disclosed that the sod cutting exercise will be done for the...
A high-powered delegation from the Ghana EXIM Bank, one of the major funding banks of the government’s flagship programme, One-district, One-factory (1D1F), has paid a working visit to three pharmaceutical companies in the Greater Accra Region who have received funding from the bank to invest into their operations. The team,...
Representatives from All Moms in Leadership (aML) Community have presented nose masks, hand sanitizers and liquid hand washing soaps produced by aML members to pregnant women at the maternity unit of the Mamprobi Polyclinic. The gesture by the community forms part of its plans in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Director of...
The Greater Accra Poultry Farmers Association (GAPFA), has donated 900 crates of eggs to the Office of the First Lady and the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection in a bid to support the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Ghana. As part of the gesture, the Rebecca...
Indigenous Oil Marketing company, GOIL Company Limited has presented personal protective equipment (PPE), Veronica Buckets, and disinfectants to the Ashaiman Polyclinic in support of the government’s efforts to stem the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The items, valued at GH₵20,000 comprised Veronica buckets; medical overalls; 2000 pieces of hand sanitisers;...