The Board Chairman of New Crystal Health Services (NCHS), Prof. Agyeman Badu Akosa, has underscored the need for private healthcare facilities to seek strategic partnerships that will inject capital into their operations. He said such capital injections will enable them to operate more efficiently and attend to the health...
Children Believe, a Canadian charity organisation, has supported the Northern Regional Health Directorate with personal protective equipment (PPE) and other kit as part of efforts to boost the morale of frontline workers at the community level.
The items worth 50,000 Canadian dollars are to be distributed to 16 health facilities...
The Vice-President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has inaugurated the US$7.5million Infectious Diseases Centre built by the Ghana COVID-19 Private Sector Fund, at the Ga East Municipal Hospital.
The project has a Level 2.5 biomedical laboratory, a triage unit, waiting areas, a nurses’ station, VIP and general wards, and a 21-bed Intensive...
Local pharmaceutical manufacturers are pushing for the imposition of restrictions on the importation of basic drugs that are being produced in the country, as a means to protect and promote the local industry to thrive and push the president’s vision of making Ghana a pharmaceutical hub.
According to the Pharmaceutical...
The US government has said it is committed to supporting the country to achieve a ‘malaria-free society’ while encouraging healthy living, including the use of mosquito-nets and early testing and treatment of malaria.
The US Ambassador to Ghana, Stephanie S. Sullivan, said whereas the latest country data show some remarkable...
The Centre for Plant Medicine Research (CPMR) has stated that the nation has no medically approved herbal drug that can be used to manage or treat patients with Coronavirus.
According to the centre, it has received tonnes of medication for the management and treatment of Coronavirus, but none passed the potency...
Fabrimetal Ghana, producers of high tensile reinforcement bars, has donated 450 Cylinders of oxygen to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital through its ongoing support to fight COVID-19. This is to help in the management and treatment of COVID-19 patients in the country.
The 450 cylinders, which adds up to 4000 Cubic...
Worldwide
The Netherlands contributed at the beginning of April the amount of €100million to the WHO for the fight against COVID-19 in the more vulnerable countries. This support aims not only at preventing and combatting COVID-19 but also focusses on mitigating socio-economic consequences.
At the beginning of last July, the Dutch...
A business idea can sound like a spiritual vision to people. Not everyone will understand, only the person who conceived the idea. That can be a little discouraging, especially when those closest to you feel you are wasting your talent with some kind of unfeasible or even unreasonable adventure....
Universities in emerging economies are playing a key role in the response to the coronavirus crisis through cutting-edge research and development (R&D) and pioneering approaches to learning.
Higher education institutions around the emerging world have adopted a range of different models in reaction to the pandemic. Some are working more closely with governmental bodies, while...
