As basic and senior high schools (SHSs) get ready to reopen on Friday, January, January 15, the Vector Control Officer, Eastern Region, Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL), Mr Maxwell Agbosu, has indicated that the safety of pupils and students is a collective responsibility of stakeholders in the midst of the new coronavirus diseases (Covid-19). According to […]
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Start COVID-19 vaccine public education now – GMA to NCCE
The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) is proposing the start of a public sensitisation on COVID-19 vaccines even before the first consignment arrives in Ghana. This, the GMA believes will help in public acceptance of the vaccines in Ghana when they arrive to help fight the coronavirus disease. In a radio interview with Accra based Citi FM Tuesday, […]
Basic & SHSs In Oti Benefit From Mass Disinfection
As part of the measures aimed at safe reopening of schools in the country, Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL) has begun disinfecting basic and senior high schools (SHSs) in the Oti Region. The exercise—which kicked-off Saturday, January 9, 2021—had already witnessed schools including Kedjebi Asato Senior High School and Poase Cement Roman Catholic Primary School and […]
Disinfection Of Schools Underway In Ashanti and Oti regions
About eighty-three senior high schools (SHSs) in the Ashanti Region stand to benefit from the fourth nationwide disinfection in education institutions. The exercise is aimed at making the schools safe for reopening as directed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in his 21st Covid address to the nation. Among the schools disinfected on the first […]
Covid-19 Fight… Our Airports Are Safe —Travellers Reassured
In the wake of the Covid, the Director of Communications and Corporate Affairs, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Mrs Emma Akyea-Boakye, has reassured travellers that the country’s airports were safe. She gave the assurance when Tamale Airport had its turn of the third phase of airport disinfection exercise in the country. According to her, the exercise has […]
Medical tourism has huge economic prospects – Health expert
The Resident doctor at Riva Swiss Hospital, Dr Michael Amfo Afriyie has urged government to commit to resourcing health facilities across the country in order to leverage on it tourism potential that comes with it. According to Dr. Afriyie, medical tourism is part of the tourism industry which definitely can have a big impact on […]
Riva Swiss Hospital inaugurated
A first class health facility, Riva Swiss located at Adadientem in the Ejisu Municipality of the Ashanti region has been commissioned with a resolve to provide quality and affordable healthcare for all. The facility which has… is stocked with state of the art medical equipment that is capable of treating and diagnosing several ailments. Speaking […]
Savanna Region gets it’s share of Waste Treatment plant from Jospong
The Jospong Group’s aim to construct waste treatment plants across the country to support government’s sanitation drive has landed in the Savanna Region. Cutting the sod for the 15 million Euros project which is expected to be completed in 4 months, the Savanna Regional Minister Salifu Adam Braimah said the project is in line with […]
Ministry of Health opens recruitment portal for 22,063 health professionals
The Ministry of Health (MoH) has announced that it has received financial clearance to recruit 22,063 various health professionals into the public health service delivery agencies. The Ministry has therefore opened the online recruitment portal for pharmacy and pharmacy doctors, allied health professionals and professional nurses with degree, diploma and certificates who completed in 2018. “Qualified […]
Austrian Consul General urges Ghana Gov’t to give Jospong massive support to address Ghana’s sanitation needs
The Consul General of Austria to Ghana, Ms. Rosemary Orthner has urged the Government of Ghana to continue to provide massive support and collaboration for the Jospong Group of Companies (JGC) and Zoomlion Ghana Limited to further address the sanitation needs of the country. She was optimistic that there are many areas the Government of […]
First Lady takes health outreach to Tema
The First Lady, Mrs. Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akufo-Addo, yesterday took her health outreach to the Tema vicinity where she presented medical logistics to the Tema General Hospital and joined a free breast cancer screening exercise. The hospital, which is the largest public referral health facility in Tema, received items including bed sheets, diapers, blankets, nose […]
President Akufo-Addo presents 10,000 hospital beds to Health Ministry
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Tuesday, 22nd September 2020, presented ten thousand hospital beds, under the Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme (IPEP), to be distributed to hospitals across the country. According to President Akufo-Addo, it is always disconcerting to see patients being treated in wheel chairs, in plastic chairs, and […]