HEALTH

The Sputnik-V vaccines procurement controversy has prompted the Minority in Parliament to renew a private member’s resolution calling for the resignation of Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, Minister of Health. The motion was supported, among others, by James Avedzi, Mubarak Muntaka, and Ahmed Ibrahim, according to the Order Paper of Parliament. A motion …

The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) workforce has given notice that they would oppose any nomination of a non-permanent staff member to the position of chief executive officer (CEO) in Kumasi, Ghana. This follows rumors that the President is contemplating appointing Prof. Okyere Addai Mensah to succeed Dr. Oheneba Owusu …

The National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) must immediately receive all National Health Insurance Levies (NHIL) collections, according to a request from the minority in parliament to the finance minister. The Minority contends that in light of the present economic uncertainty, it is unacceptable for claims to be owed that are …

Ruby Naa Ago Larbi Mensah Ansah-Tagoe, a senior midwifery official at the Tema Health Center, has disclosed that pregnant women should avoid using the missionary style of intercourse since the unborn child would be denied oxygen. On the GTV Breakfast Show on November 15, 2022, she revealed this. A heterosexual …

Hon. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, the majority leader and minister of parliamentary affairs, has criticized those who oppose the government’s agenda to build 111 hospitals across the nation. Last Tuesday, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu gave persuasive arguments for why the government’s decision to carry out such capital-intensive projects, even during this period, should be …

The progress of the current work on the reconstruction and modernization of the Maternity and Children’s block of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi has been praised by the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. As part of his four-day working visit to the Ashanti region, the …

According to Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic, since 2017, his administration has started and finished 32 hospital construction projects in the Ashanti Region. As part of his four-day working visit to the Ashanti Region, President Akufo-Addo stressed that “I am not referring to CHPS compounds and health …

Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia noted that the government’s desire to address the glaring lack of access to healthcare facilities, particularly in remote areas of the country, led to the decision to launch Agenda 111, possibly the largest investment in the nation’s health care system. Dr. Bawumia noted that this was …

Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, vice president, expressed his delight with the advancement of the Agenda 111 Hospital projects in the Northern Region. However, he has imposed a fee on the project’s contractors to expedite construction in order to guarantee their timely completion. By December 2023, all eight of the district hospitals …

According to the World Bank, Ghana’s government is free to use the $430 million that the Bretton Woods organization provided to the West African nation to battle the COVID-19 outbreak. In an interview with Accra-based TV3, the Bank’s Country Director for Ghana, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, Mr. Pierre Frank Laporte, …