Maternal mortality rate at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) reduced from 10.56 per 100,000 live births in 2015 to 10.20 per 100,000 live births in 2016.
This followed a drop in maternal deaths from 102 in 2015 to 91 in 2016.
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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo last Saturday cleared any ambiguity over the government’s policy to roll out its free senior high school (SHS) policy, effective September this year, saying SHS education would be truly free.
Speaki…
Brynne Kennedy speaks Mandarin, French and Portuguese and is well versed in investment banking vernacular. But five years ago, when she flew to California from the UK to raise funds for her tech startup, she had to learn a whole new langua…
Growing Sustainable Horticultural (GrowS-Hort), an agribusiness training centre, has launched an incubator to provide unique opportunities to enhance growth of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and startups.
The centre has been positi…
Two students in Bawku are reported dead from suspected Cerebro Spinal Meningitis (CSM) while 11 are on admission at the Bawku Presbyterian Hospital.
The two deceased were second year science students of the Bawku Senior High School and…
Ms. Esther Cobbah, Chief Executive Officer of Stratcomm Africa, organisers of the Garden and Flower Show says, Ghana could earn billions of dollars from flower exports annually while its citizens directly or indirectly earned a living from…
The Vision for Alternative Development (VALD) has commended the Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante-Appeatu, for pledging to resource the Motor Transport and Traffic Directorate (MTTD) to enhance road safety.
The IGP, during…
The Eastern Regional Manager of the Forestry Commission (FC), has blamed illegal mining and lumbering in the forest reserves as the major human activities that had devastated forest reserves and caused damage to many water bodies.
Mr A…
SOS Children’s Villages Ghana, has embarked on a “Quality Education Now (QEN)” project as part of efforts to create an enabling environment to manage school properties used by churches for their services.
The SOS Villages Ghana therefor…
WaterAid, in partnership with the European Union (EU) and Globe Productions, has engaged Members of Parliament and other key stakeholders on the rights of children to access decent toilet facilities and clean water.
Using a play, title…
Professor Erica Marsh, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Chief, University of Michigan, USA has disclosed that infertility is not only a women’s problem as carried out in Ghanaian societies.
According to her, the problem of inf…
An appeal has been made to the government to focus priority attention on mental health care. Madam Ruth Okyere of the Mind Freedom Ghana, an NGO, committed to mental health issues, said there should be adequate budgetary allocation for t…
Mr Louis Michel, former European Union (EU) Development Commissioner and Belgian Foreign Affairs Minister, will arrive in Accra on March 27 for an official visit to Ghana.
A statement signed by Mrs Rejoice Esi Asante, the Press, Informa…
The Elections Committee of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), has postponed the election of national executives for the Association, slated for March 31.
The development, according to a statement issued by Mr Ben. B Assorow, …
Officials and distributors of Awake Purified Drinking Water joined Ghanaians and the world to observe this year’s World Water Day with a call on Ghanaians to drink quality water and to protect water bodies.
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Residents in some communities in the Pusiga Constituency are reported to have experienced floods in the rainy season, but likely to face epidemics when the waters dry up.
The dearth of water during the dry season push them to scoop wat…
Some Smallholder farmers in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region are exploiting indigenous farming technologies to preserve their foodstuff for storage and treat their livestock of diseases and pests.
This came to light at th…
The Minister of the Interior has on the advice of the Northern Regional Security Council and by Executive Instrument has renewed the Curfew hours on the Bimbilla Township from 6:00pm to 6:00am effective Friday March 24.
A statement sign…
NNM Adventures, a social enterprise that provides ethical and sustainable tourism in Ghana and across West Africa, is organising a trip to the Kwahu Range in the Eastern Region as part of the Easter festivities.
The highlights of the tr…
Polling station executives and supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ejisu-Juaben have expressed fury and strong opposition to what they claim to be moves by the party’s national leadership to get Madam Serwaah Derchie appoint…
Government has been urged to seek alternative approaches to preserve and sustain national water supply.
In his message to mark this year’s World Water Day on the theme “water and waste water”, Mr Raphael Godlove Ahenu, the Chief Execut…
Insulin is a hormone made in the pancreas that is responsible for regulating blood sugar levels. Diabetes is a condition where the body doesn't make enough insulin or can't use it properly.
People diagnosed with diabetes benefit from in…
More?than one million Ghanaians, constituting about 12 per cent of the labour force, are unemployed, a study conducted by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) in 2015 has revealed.
Out of the number, more than 700,000, constituting 12.5 …
As I do at every annual commemoration of our hard won independence from colonial subjugation, this year I waited for our newly elected president to share his thoughts and reflections on our history and our promise to the younger generation…
The Northern Region has been adjudged the best performing region in the country in neonatal health care in 2016 by the Ghana Health Service (GHS).
Under the GHS National League Table, the region recorded one death per every 100,000 live…
The Ho Central Market allocation, which has generated issues of unfair dealings on the part of the Ho Municipal Assembly, is to be reviewed, the Volta Regional Minister, Dr Archibald Letsa, has indicated.
According to Dr Letsa, due to t…
Businesses strive to be “built to last”, cities spend time and energy to become modernised but Accra it appears was built to be dirty and Kofi Bentil of IMANI Ghana aptly described it as “our city is designed to be dirty.”
We have an an…
Work on a 3.3 million gallons water project in Wa, the Upper West regional capital, has been completed. The water supply system which is currently being test run will be ready for distribution to consumers in the Wa municipality by the end…
Vice President Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, on Thursday paid a surprise visit to the Passport Office in Accra and expressed Government’s commitment to resource the Centre to render efficient service.
He said there had been many complaint…
MTN Ghana has adjudged Joseph Morny Edem, Prince Mensah, and Adinan Alhassan’s app ‘Amatsi’, as the overall winners of the MTN APPS Challenge version 4.0 Competition in Accra.
The group, which won in the Business Freelance app categ…
Ghana on Wednesday, joined the world to commemorate the 2017 World Water Day on the theme: “Water and Waste Water,” with a call on Ghanaians to manage water resources and prevent the wastage of water.
Mr Joseph Kofi Adda, Minister of Sa…
A recent study, published in JAMA Oncology, finds a link between surviving cancer and health risks for the survivors' future newborns. The study provides new information about this little-studied interaction.
As treatment for cancer ste…
A $100,000 water facility has been inaugurated for the people of Sekasua in the Upper Manya District in the Eastern Region.
The provision of the facility, which was implemented by Safe Water Network, a non-governmental organisation, wit…
Security Services in the Upper West Region are owing the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) GHc 550,449, thereby topping the list of defaulters in the Region.
Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) placed second on the list of defa…
The Christian Council of Ghana (CCG) has called on religious leaders, especially pastors and prophets, to allow state officials to work based on their professional competencies and not by a directive of a religious leader.
“We are not b…
The management of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) in the New Juaben Municipality has appealed to people whose membership cards were due for renewal not to rush to their office as they would carry out outreach programmes to…
Fresh charges have been preferred against suspects allegedly involved in the Bimbilla clashes which resulted in fatalities and destruction of properties. Meanwhile one more person had been arrested and arraigned.
The accused persons ar…
Eight students of the Winneba Secondary School consisting of four males and four females together with their tutor, returned home last night, after coming second in an International Science Competition, which took place in the United Stat…
The Youth Inclusive Entrepreneurial Development Initiative for Employment (YIEDIE) project has trained 800 young men and women in vocational skills to enhance their chances of getting employment.
The trainees received certificates after…
Safe Water Network (SWN), a non-governmental organisation in partnership with the Netherlands government, has constructed two water stations to provide potable water for the people of Sekesua and Akateng in the Upper-Manya Krobo district.
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The Minister of Health (MOH), Mr Kwaku Agyemang Manu, has stated that health service providers under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) will be paid their claims this year as part of efforts to sustain the scheme.
He said the s…
Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), the nation’s second largest referral facility, has taken delivery of medical equipment costing about US$150,000 to improve the quality of care.
These included electrocardiogram, digital retina came…
National Disability Network of Ghana has appealed to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to appoint a special advisor on disability affairs at the Presidency.
This is to ensure that the President prioritises disability issues for the …
Dr. Archibald Letsa, Volta Regional Minister has charged civil servants in the Region to be committed to fighting corruption. He said Government had great plans to lift the nation out of poverty, which he said stemmed from greed and corrup…
Togbe Hodzi Dunyo IV, Chief of Ave Atanve has called for the setting up of special courts to handle traffic offences. He noted that traffic offences were not given ‘satisfactory’ attention in traditional courts and thereby frustrated effor…
Six vehicles and operational equipment valued at $185,000 have been presented to the Ghana Police Service to help combat child trafficking in the country.
The vehicles and equipment that were presented by the International Organisation …
Universe Aid Foundation (UAF), a non-Governmental Organisation operating in Ghana and the United Kingdom, has donated some teaching and learning materials to a basic school in Goo-Atanda in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region.
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Project Maji continued its service to Ghana this week in honour of World Water Day by opening two new solar powered water kiosks in rural communities.
One was opened at Gaymtutu community in East Gonja District in the Northern Region an…
Professor Ahmed N. Zakariah, the Chief Executive Officer of the National Ambulance Service, (NAS) on Wednesday, has called for the passage of the NAS Bill because the absence of the legislation is limiting their work in so many ways.
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A praise singer once uttered some emotional words of wisdom at my late ground mother’s funeral years back in Gumo and got all women around mourning their hearts out.
“Women of Dorzieh, emulate N-Edeke, if your husband die and you fail t…
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