While the COVID-19 pandemic has brought devastating impacts on the economy and the health infrastructure, a key lesson the disease has taught is the need to prioritise local production and consumption, the Ashanti Region Minister, Simon Osei Mensah, has said.
He observed that with the advent of the disease’ global...
Following a proposal by Member of Parliament (MP) for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, requesting the President, Nana Akufo Addo to absorb the fees of new entrants and continuing students of public tertiary institutions for the 2020/2021 academic year, MPs on both side have held diverse views on the matter.
According...
Even though the directive by the President to reopen schools has been welcomed by many, especially private school owners, some parents and teachers are still not convinced about the timing, as new developments show COVID-19 cases are on an astronomic rise.
Parents of particularly, young kids, say they are deeply...
President Akufo-Addo has announced that Ghana has recorded cases of the new variant of COVID-19, from airport arrivals, as the figures keep rising with 200 new cases every day.
He stated that the infected persons have been isolated to prevent the new variant of the disease from spreading among the...
Member of the Ghana Covid-19 Taskforce, and outgone Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu has indicated that government and the relevant stakeholders are still engaging on measures to contain the spread of Coronavirus, even as the numbers in the country have surged recently.
As part of measures being taken, he...
Zoomlion Ghana Limited has undertaken a disinfestation exercise targeted at getting rid of pests and other disease causing organisms at the Kumasi Airport.
The menace of rodents, crawling and flying insects has become a conduit for spreading diseases and of major concerns for officials and travellers who use the airport.
Some...
Akosua Comfort a four-year-old girl who was born with one leg longer than the other, has finally received support from Vodafone Healthline, to correct the anomaly and afford her quality life.
According to Akosua’s family, residents of Ada Akrofenso in the Eastern Region, they noticed the anomaly after her birth...
The Sickle Cell Foundation of Ghana, in collaboration with the American Society of Haematology, has launched a new-born screening programme at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital and the 37 Military Hospital.
The programme is expected to make sickle-cell diagnosis easier and faster in order to reduce the child mortality rate...
Vodafone Ghana Foundation has donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the Accra Regional Hospital as part of efforts to protect frontline health workers in their fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
The items, which were donated during the festive period, include sets of face shields, boxes of N95 facemasks, surgical gloves,...
Scores of private basic schools in the Central Region on Monday, January 11, 2021 began undergoing mass disinfections against the new coronavirus (COVID-19).
The exercise was also to allow for a safe reopening of all the schools on Friday, January 15, as directed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in...