Eight persons have died from suspected Yellow Fever (YF) outbreak in the Savannah Region, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has said. This follows interim laboratory results of an unusual disease from the region, a press release from the Service, copied to the Ghana News Agency said. It said the disease was presumed to be Yellow … The post Eight
The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources on Friday inaugurated a special committee to halt gold smuggling in Ghana. The Committee is chaired by Mr George Mireku Duker, a Deputy Minister of the Ministry in charge of Mines, tasked to ensure the integrity of the gold export value chain and increase the government’s revenue on … The post More than $9b
The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Mr Joseph Osei-Owusu, has directed the General Legal Council (GLC) to admit all students who passed the entrance exams to the Ghana School of Law per the advertised rules of the examination. He further directed the Attorney General and Minister of Justice to ensure that the resolution passed by … The post Ghana
Nii Nortery Hanson Nortey, Vice Chairman of the Country Coordinating Mechanism of Global Fund, Ghana, says the Fund has contributed US$1.2 billion to improve health systems in Ghana in the last 20 years. He said the Global Fund had provided resources such as money, medicines, equipment and vehicles to help fight Malaria, Tuberculosis and AIDs … The post Global
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has pledged to help to reignite the teaching of Ga Dangme in schools in the Greater Region soon. He explained that effort would soon be made by the Ministry of Education in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service to ensure that people with the requisite skills in the teaching and … The post Akufo-Addo
The Asante Akropong District Court has remanded a self-styled lawyer into prison custody for attempting to represent a client in a murder case at the Nyinahin District Court. Kyei Baffour, 39, was arrested by the police following a report by the Magistrate of the Nyinahin District Court that her checks at the Ghana Bar Association … The post Alleged self-styled
Mr Daniel Botwe, Minister of Local Government, Decentralization and Rural Development, has said the Ministry was committed to championing the course of decentralized local government, with policy guidelines to enable Metropolitan, Municipal and District Executives (MMDCEs) function better. He said the Ministry would continue to support the MMDCEs with policy guidelines and manuals to enable … The post Government
The Ghana Prisons Service (GPS), in collaboration with the Legal Resource Centre (LRC), has organised an external stakeholder consultation to solicit inputs into the draft Ghana Prisons Service Bill 2021. The two-day consultative meeting, among other things, aims to solicit views from external stakeholders to review the provisions in the draft Bill to develop a … The post Ghana
Research by a nine-member team of the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has revealed that informal and out-of-pocket patient payments existed within the formal health care system. The Team said the payments were usually to obtain better attention, care or to avoid delay at the … The post Informal
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