The Accra Metropolitan Assembly as part of the National Sanitation Campaign will be organizing a clean up exercise on Saturday, December 2, 2017.
In pursuance of this, officials of AMA have disclosed that they will be an enforcement of AMA(Environmental Sanitation Day), Bye laws 1995.
Officials have therefore entreated shops, markets...
The Abeka Sanitation and Motor Court has prosecuted eight persons for improper disposal of refuse at unauthorized places contrary to section 56 (a) and (b) of Act 851, of the Public Health Act 2012.
The eight who are residents of Okaishie and its environs in the Ashiedu Keteke Sub-metro are Eneka Dokyi,...
Harmonization of medical products is taking place in the regional economic bloc, to ensure that processes, quality of work is standardized across the ECOWAS sub region including Ghana, in a bid to check fake drugs or medical products cutting across the borders.
Addressing the press during the opening of...
West African countries have launched the Medicines Regulatory Harmonisation Project (MRHP) that ensure smooth and standard registration of medicines produced in the sub-region.
Speaking at the launch of the project in Accra on Monday, the Deputy Health Minister for Health, Kingsley Aboagye Gyedu, stated that, “The intent of all these...
Dr. De-Gaulle Moses Dogbatsey, the Chief Executive Officer of Medi-Moses Prostate Centre, has appealed to the government to declare the month of September, every year, as ‘Prostate Cancer Awareness Month’ to enlighten the public on the disease.
He said this would help in creating awareness and educate people on prostate...
We at Tersus Ghana, like most well-meaning Ghanaians, are embarrassed. We are embarrassed that Accra, the capital city of Ghana is tagged as one of the most trash riddled cities in Africa, with some communities like Agbogbloshie ranked by the Blacksmith Institute among the world’s top ten most toxic...
The Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Hajia Alima Mahama has renovated the Female Infirmary Ward of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital.
With close to GH¢20,000 from the Minister’s personal savings, she fixed broken and hanging ceilings at the ward, corrected some plumbing works and renovated the washrooms, replaced old...
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...
Parliament’s approval of the Value Added Tax (VAT) exemptions on selected medicines would correspond to a thirty percent (30%) reduction on the NHIS tariffs on medicines and the private sector is also expected to make about thirty percent (30%) savings on the exemptions of VAT on the selected products,...
The first ever Keratoprothesis eye surgery has been conducted in Ghana by the Dr. Agarwal Eye Hospital.
Keratoprothesis is a surgical procedure where a diseased cornea is replaced with a partial artificial one. It is reserved for patients for whom traditional penetration keratoplasty – PKP, that is other forms of...