HEALTH

Following the recent severe rains last week, Wassa Amenfi East Member of Parliament Hon. Nicholas Amankwah visited certain places in his municipality that were hit by floods. Many people of flooded districts in Wassa Amenfi East have lamented the constant flooding in Wassa Akropong, the municipal center of the Western …

Following Wednesday’s downpour, four people who drowned in separate incidences have had their bodies found in various locations in the Ashanti Region. On June 21st at night, three persons perished at Atafoa, Sepaase, and Tafo. When he dove into the river to look for the deceased on June 22nd, the …

In the Assin South District of the Central Region, at Assin Kruwa, a 22-year-old Mobile Money vendor committed suicide. On June 8, 2023, about 3 PM, the dead, Abdul Rahman Acquah, left his house and was never seen again. The community members performed a thorough search, but their efforts turned …

On Tuesday, June 6, 2023, President Akufo-Addo commissions the recently built structure, which will house the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital’s Department of Psychiatry. Squadron Leader Melody Danquah, a trailblazing woman who made history as the first female military pilot in sub-Saharan Africa in the 1960s, is honored by this magnificent structure, which …

According to the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA), the Covid-19 levy should be eliminated rather than the government’s e-levy. Despite the pandemic being gone, President Nana Akufo-Addo urged with Ghanaians to continue paying the Covid-19 levy. The president stated in his final Covid report on Sunday, May 28, 2023: …

Following the spread of the anthrax disease in some areas of the country, the Upper East Regional Coordinating Council has imposed a one-month ban on the transportation of ruminants along the Eastern corridors of the region. The prohibition will go into force right away on Tuesday, June 6, 2023, according …

The former CEO of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Dr. Oheneba Owusu-Danso, is said to have received approval from the Minister for Health, Kwaku Agyeman Manu, for a further three-year extension to work as staff and surgeon at the Premier health facility in Ashanti. A facility source, however, said …

Despite the pandemic being over, President Nana Akufo-Addo has pleaded with Ghanaians to continue paying the Covid-19 levy. The COVID Health Recovery Levy, which was established to help close some budget gaps, might not be the most popular tax, but I implore all of you to bear with us, the …

The COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana has officially been declared over by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. President Akufo-Addo stated that the decision to proclaim the epidemic over was made during a meeting of the national COVID-19 Taskforce on May 17, 2023, in his 29th televised address to the nation since …

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the president of the republic, officially opened an ultramodern office building that would work as the strategic coordinating body for vaccine development and production in Ghana. It will be recalled that on February 28, 2021, President Akufo-Addo established a Presidential Committee on Vaccine Development and Manufacturing …