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 […]
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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 […]
Government generates $37,050 in 2 days from Covid-19 testing at KIA
Government has generated a total of $37,050 from Covid-19 testing of travellers coming into Ghana since reopening the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) on September 1. According to the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, the Airport Health officials have so far conducted a total of 247 Covid-19 tests since the re-opening of […]
India to make COVID-19 vaccine available to Ghana – High Commissioner
The Indian Government will make available to Ghana and the rest of the world, three vaccines for the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) that are currently under trial. The Indian High Commissioner to Ghana, Mr Sugandh Rajaram who made this known to the Daily Graphic in an interview on Saturday said India’s relationship with Ghana which […]
President Akufo-Addo cuts sod for new 400-bed Maternity block; 101-bed Urology Centre at Korle-Bu
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Tuesday, 11th August 2020, cut the sod for the construction and equipping of a twelve (12) storey four hundred (400) bed Maternity and Gynaecological Centre, and a two (2) storey one hundred and one (101) bed Urology and Nephrology Centre at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. […]
Ridge hospital suspends two staff members for administrative malpractice
The Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Ridge has suspended two of its staff members for engaging in administrative malpractices. The officers were caught by BBC investigative team “Africa Eye” engaging in the sale of Personal Protective Equipment’s (PPEs) belonging to a private individual within the premises of the Hospital. According to their statement, the items sold, […]
It’s very traumatic – UGMC CEO narrates how colleagues, coronavirus patients die at ICU
The unending fight against COVID-19 has been a very arduous one, and as soldiers go to war, the ones at the front of this battle are our health workers. Some of these frontline health workers sadly become casualties leaving their other colleagues to continue with the fight; very disturbing. About seven hundred and seventy-nine (779) health workers […]
Ridge Hospital cleared by management of alleged Covid-19 misdiagnosis in death of 24-year-old woman
Health officials at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital have been cleared of any form of medical negligence following the death of 24-year-old Barbara Oforiwaa Agyemang at the facility. The mother of the deceased, Paulina Agyemang is citing Covid-19 misdiagnosis on the part of the nurses and doctors who handled her daughter’s medical care. According to […]
Do not self-medicate newly found life-saving coronavirus drug – Physician Anesthesiologist warns
The discovery of the common steroid dexamethasone as a treatment for coronavirus has been hailed as a “major breakthrough” but a Ghanaian Physician Anesthesiologist has warned against self-medicating the cheap and widely available drug. Having been available for decades, relatively cheap and readily available, Dr Nana Dadzie Ghansah of the Anesthesia Associates of Lexington says even […]