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Separate prescription, dispensing services under NHIS – Prof Sarpong
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has been urged to end the practice under the health insurance scheme (NHIS), drugs are prescribed and dispensed at the same facility.
Emeritus Professor Kwame Sarpong, former Dean of the…
Tuberculosis is curable – Health Director
The Gomoa East Director of Ghana Health Services, Mr Wilberforce Adadeh, said the days when Tuberculosis (TB) was feared is over because the disease can now be cured.
Mr Adadeh said this at a TB forum organised by the Gomoa East Health…
Two Nigerians jailed 36 years for robbery
Two Nigerians have been sentenced to 36 years imprisonment by a Kumasi Circuit Court for snatching an amount of GH¢5,000.00 from a cashier.
Gift Anyagbu, 25 and Morgan Nwaokike, 22, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and stealing.…
Ghana Police arrests 12-year old Ivorian for attempted stowaway
A 12-year old Ivorian, Saudou Amin, has been apprehended by the Takoradi Port Police for attempting to stowaway aboard a Liberian vessel that docked at the Takoradi Harbour enroute to Brazil.
The Police has handed him over to the Ghana…
WFP to purchase locally produced rice from farmers in Northern Ghana
The World Food Programme (WFP) is to purchase locally produced rice from farmers in the Northern Region to feed some 150,000 school children under the School Feeding Programme.
Mr. Ismail Omer, WFP Country Director, said this in Tamale on…
80 motor accidents kill 39 in Upper West Region
Thirty-nine people lost their lives through accidents involving 80 motor bikes between January and May 2012 in the Upper West Region.
Out of this, 111 people sustained various degrees of injuries, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Kofi…
Juaso Hospital receives GH¢87,000 anesthetic machine
The Juaso District Hospital has taken delivery of an-GH¢87,000.00 anaesthetic machine bought by the Asante-Akim South District Assembly from its share of the 2010 District Development Fund.
Mr De-graft Fokuo, the District Chief Executive…
Ghana gov’t wants fixed 10-year non-renewable tenure of office for central bank governor
The Ghana government is recommending a fixed 10-year tenure of office for the Governor of the Bank of Ghana.
According to the government, the 10-year tenure should be “non-renewable”.
This is contained in a government White Paper released…
Fertilizer smuggling hits Sissala West District
There are reports of alleged smuggling of fertilizer across the border into neighboring Burkina Faso in the Sissala West District of the Upper West Region.
The reports alleged that security personnel at the border are conniving with the…
NYEP to clear salary arrears of beneficiaries
The management of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) is to clear the three-month outstanding salary arrears due its beneficiaries in July this year.
This is to put to rest agitation by the beneficiaries over delays in the…