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GHANA WATER SUED …OVER TESHIE DESALINATION
Two Ghanaian Citizens, Mohammed Bashiru and Seth Tagoe, have filed suite against Ghana water company and the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission at an Accra High Court .
The plaintiff is claiming for a declaration that a careful…
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Medical Council Announces New Policy For Foreign-Trained Doctors
The Board of Ghana’s Medical and Dental Council has announced the decision to consider a policy for foreign-trained Ghanaian doctors.
According to the council, the policy will address the incessant failure of the Medical and Dental…
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Northern Region Records 10 per cent Drop In Open Defecation
Mr Salifu Saeed, the Northern Regional Minister, has said Open Defecation (OD) rate in the Northern Region currently stands at 56.8 per cent, which is a 10 per cent reduction of the 2017 rate which stood at 67.6 per cent.
He said…
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Pass Traditional And Alternative Medicine Bill- Dr. Nyarkotey to Gov’t
The founder and President of the Nyarkotey College of Holistic Medicine, Dr. Raphael Nyarkotey Obu, has called on government to speed up the passage of the Traditional and Alternative Medicine Bill which has been neglected .
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Bracing All Odd: Midwife serving despite lack of amenities
The Ahyireman Community in the Ahafo ano East District of the Ashanti Region is not connected to the National Grid, Water and Transportation are other challenges facing the local population. The community health planning Services ships…
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Names of over 28,000 health sector workers likely to be deleted from gov’t payroll
About 28,414 health sector employees are facing deletion from government payroll following the Health Ministry’s failure to respond to payroll audit observations by the Auditor General.
The Auditor General in 2018 opened a public sector…
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ICGC Donates GHC 200,000 To Ghana’s Psychiatric Hospitals
The International Central Gospel Church, ICGC has donated GHC 200,000 to the Mental Health Authority.
This is for the procurement and installation of three electro- convulsive therapy machines (ECT machine) for the three psychiatric…
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KATH ABANDONED MBU COSTS US$170 MILLION
A STAGGERING US$170 million is needed to complete the 45-year-old Mother and Baby Unit (MBU) project at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi.
Briefing a section of the media here over the ‘abandoned project, the Chief…
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Hundreds Benefit From Free Health Screening At Domeabra
Hundreds of people from Domeabra and its surrounding communities in the Asante-Akim North District, have benefitted from a free health screening exercise organized by the Trinity Congregation of the Presbyterian Church at Domeabra.
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Psychiatric Patients Relapse Due To Lack Of Essential Medications In 2018
Three community psychiatric units in the Tema Metropolis were in 2018 denied supply of needed essential medications leading to relapses of patients' conditions.
The medicines included Olanzapine 10mg, Carbamazepine 200mg, Phenobarbitone…
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