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The World Health Organization (WHO) says health care is fundamentally changing around the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic and called for a rethink of the traditional ways of healthcare  delivery The pandemic, according to WHO, has heralded the reimagining of healthcare delivery models from siloed and static-into new models …

Air pollution, from both outdoor and indoor activities are dangerous to the environment and human health, but infants and the elderly in Ghana are at greater risk as they make the majority who fall ill from the pollution, a World Bank study has found out. In a presentation at a …

Air pollution has been cited as the number one environmental danger to public health and it’s the sixth-ranked overall cause of death in the country. A study published May 30, 2019 in Boston, USA as reported by Ghana Business News, ranked household air pollution as the seventh leading cause of …

Ghana’s population is now 30.8 million, provisional figures from the 2021 Population and Housing Census (PHC) conducted by the Ghana Statistical Service, have projected. The figures announced by Professor Samuel K. Annim, the Government Statistician, who announced the figures on Wednesday in Accra, said the figures showed an increase of …

Mr António Guterres, the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, has called for bridging the gap between the rich and the poor, within and among countries. This, he said, starts by ending the COVID-19 pandemic for everyone, everywhere. “We urgently need a global vaccination plan to at least double vaccine production and …

Mrs Jemima Oware, the Registrar-General, says the implementation of the new Companies and the Corporate Insolvency and Restructuring Acts (CIRA) will turn the fortunes of businesses in the country in a positive direction. The Companies Act, 2019 (Act 992) and the CRIA 2020 (Act 1015) were passed into law on …

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia says Africa needs the effective functioning of the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) if the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is to achieve the desired outcomes. He said the outcomes would include enhanced intra-African trade, economic transformation, job creation for the teeming youthful population and …

The world is facing an ominous reality. Climate change is happening and affecting the way of life of people, economies and the future of life on planet earth, whether people believe it or not. Some coastal communities of the world are being washed away by sea erosion, while some agricultural …

The fisheries sector is an important part of not only Ghana’s economy, but culture as well. There are generations of fishermen and women who process and sell fish. There are communities built solely on fishing, but the sector seems to have come under relentless attack from illegal fishing activities, chief …

Stimulants based on amphetamines like “ecstasy” and methamphetamine now rank as Africa’s second most widely abused drug type apart from cannabis, Professor Stanley Okolo, the Director General of West Africa Health Organization (WAHO), has said. He said the problem of illicit drug use was widespread in the West African region …