The Ghana Health Service (GHS) in partnership with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is extending health promotion, public outreach and awareness on coronavirus to vulnerable populations, including persons with disability and people living with HIV in hard-to reach communities. The goal is to ensure that 500,000 vulnerable women and 250,000...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged Ghanaians to report COVID-19 symptoms early to health facilities to avoid death. Delivering his 13th COVID-19 update to the nation, the President explained that most patients who reported to health facilities late either died on arrival or within forty-eight hours after arrival at...
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has said the various schools across the country have already been fumigated and disinfected various quantities of PPE have been provisioned to cater for the students, teachers and non-teaching staff, as they reopen tomorrow. In all about 750,000 persons, comprising 532,000 JHS 3 students,...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has extended for three months more, incentive packages for health workers amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The packages the President noted, are meant to commend health workers for their handwork during the pandemic, and to also encourage them to do more in that regard. He attributed the...
 The Ghana Electrical Dealers Association (GEDA) on Wednesday engaged Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL) to disinfect its business space at Opera Square, Accra, also known as Cow Lane. The exercise started around 7:00 a.m., and saw ZGL deploy one of its boom atomisers together with a disinfection crew with knapsack spraying...
AstraZeneca, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, has supported the government of Ghana Covid-19 Management Team with 35,000 surgical masks. The donation was made on Wednesday, June 24 through representatives of AstraZeneca, and will help protect frontline health workers in their tireless fight to contain the spread of COVID-19 in...
Consolidated Bank Ghana has donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and some medical supplies to the Ministry of Health, in line with its commitment to help Ghana combat COVID-19. Items donated include a set of protective gowns, an ICU patient monitoring system, bedside patients’ monitors and Veronica buckets with unique corporate...
…Discussion to focus on managing an anxious workforce during and post COVID-19 The question of how to effectively manage an anxious workforce in the face of the novel coronavirus economic crisis will be the centre of discussion, as the 2020 Ghana's Most Respected CEOs Breakfast Series takes off today. The one-day...
We need African resources for African transformation, and the fund is a significant step in that direction The African Union recently rolled out the Partnership to Accelerate Covid-19 Testing (PACT)) building on the lessons from past outbreaks and epidemics. In early 2014, when Ebola cases were first reported in the West...
Mercy Ships has donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the Ghana Health Service to contribute to the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic. The donation is made up of 9000 items consisting of: 1,500 nursing caps, 1,500 medical protective glasses, 1,500 masks FFP2, 1,500 pairs of gloves, 1,500 surgical gowns, 1,500...