Author: Krobea

The Medical Superintendent of the Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Hospital, Dr Alex Benneh, is confident a public-private partnership would help fill the gap in acquiring essential equipment that would enhance quality healthcare delivery to clients. He pointed out at the unveiling of a bust and commissioning of a 540-kilovolt generator for the Hospital at Mampong-Akuapem in the Eastern Region. The Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Hospital was established in February, 1961. The Hospital, built with funds from the then Ghana Cocoa Marketing Board, will be 60 years. The Hospital is a 150-bed capacity hospital that serves the whole of Akuapem ridge and beyond.…

As part of the efforts to find a cure for the coronavirus, which devastated the globe, CelebrateLAB has collaborated with West Africa Scientists to provide much-needed knowledge for medical laboratory professionals. The virtual training series was hosted in partnership with the Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists (GAMLS) and the Ghana Health Service and in collaboration with other laboratory professionals across West Africa. An average of about 600 Medical Laboratory Professionals from across Africa and outside the continent, participated in each of the six virtual series. The over six-month virtual series made it possible for Medical Laboratory professionals to benefit…

Tension is brewing in the Bekwai Constituency in the Ashanti Region as faceless youth deface billboards belonging to independent parliamentary candidate and lawyer Amofa Agyemang. It is unclear when that happened but Lawyer Amofa’s campaign team accuses incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) Joseph Osei-Owusu of masterminding the act. Lawyer Amofa Agyemang, who confirmed the incident to Kofi Asante Ennin on Akoma FM’s morning show GhanAkoma on Tuesday, November 24, said he has since reported the matter to the police for further action. “We feel intimidated here because my billboard has been destroyed by unknown people. This is very bad. How…

Chair of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) Jean Adukwei Mensa has rejected assertions by some politicians that the nation’s elections management body is working to make sure the incumbent New Patriotic Party (NPP) is retained. She maintained that in the current scheme of things, especially the processes with elections in the country, nobody can rig the elections for any candidate. Mrs Mensa made this known on Tuesday, November 24, when she interacted with some journalists at a training workshop held at the instance of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA). She said journalists must be bold to question politicians who accuse…

An Environment and Natural Resources Lecturer at the University of Ghana has said the registration of canoes in the country will fail to streamline fishing activities in Ghana’s territorial waters, if the illegal activities of foreign trawlers are not stopped. Professor Wisdom Akpalu says the foreign trawlers would continue to illegally fish small pelagic fishes and this will result in the same depletion of the country’s fish stock, a situation the registration is intended to prevent. The Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development has registered over 14,000 canoes so far, in a biometric canoe registration project aimed at regulating artisanal…

A two-bedroom nurses bungalow funded by the Chief Executive Officer of Engineers and Planners, Ibrahim Mahama, for the Chache CHPS Compound has been commissioned. At a short ceremony to hand over the facility to the Bole District Health Directorate on Sunday, November 22, Member of Parliament for Bole-Bamboi Constituency Alhaji Yussif Sulemana admonished the health directorate to facilitate the posting of a midwife to the health facility. According to him, the gesture will curb the stress pregnant women go through travelling several kilometers from Chache to Bole to access health care. Alhaji Yussif Sulemana appealed to the health directorate to…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called an end to what he describes as negative propaganda in the nation’s politics. The President suggested that there have been misconception that Akyems do not like Krobos, reason the latter have voted against the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for several years. “They say I am an Akyem man [and] that Akyems don’t like Krobo people, so if I am coming to power I am coming to harass Krobo people. Has anybody been harrased here or Akyem Abuakwa? It’s all negative propaganda, people who do things and they have to invent things to be…

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has raised suspicions that some hoodlums could find their way into the security personnel to be deployed on elections day, Monday, December 7. According to the party, it is picking up information that some persons other than genuine officers will be clothed in the approved uniforms announced by the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to intimidate voters in the party’s strongholds. “This normal dressing requirement for all service personnel should be strictly enforced to assuage fears that some Police uniforms being sewn will find its way into the hands of vigilantes/hoodlums recruited by the ruling…

The 8th anniversary celebration of the demise of the late former Vice President of Ghana under the erstwhile John Agyekum Kufuor administration was marked in grand style in Yendi, the traditional seat of Dagbon and hometown of the late Alhaji Aliu Mahama. In an address, the Executive Director of the foundation, Dr S.K Frimpong, indicated that the late former Vice President was an inspiration to many and his memories will ever live on as he instilled good training and great family values into all and sundry whom he came across. Dr SK Frimpong, who is also the Technical Advisor to…

Donald Trump has accepted a formal US transition should begin for President-elect Joe Biden to take office. The president said the federal agency overseeing the handover must “do what needs to be done”, even as he vowed to keep contesting his election defeat. The General Services Administration (GSA) said it was acknowledging Mr Biden as the “apparent winner”. It came as Mr Biden’s victory in the state of Michigan was officially certified, a major blow to Mr Trump. After the GSA announcement, the Pentagon said it would provide “support to the Biden team… in a professional, orderly, and efficient manner…