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Dr. Dominic Obeng-Andoh[/caption] The Ghana Medical and Dental Council says it will study the court’s ruling that acquitted Dr. Dominic Kwame Obeng-Andoh, the Proprietor of the Obengfo Hospital and take a firm decision on his case. He was charged for being an unregistered practitioner and operating an unlicensed health facility, but on Tuesday, the Accra Circuit Court Four did not find him culpable per the way the charges were framed by the prosecution. The court had stated, for instance, that there were inconsistencies in the evidence given by the prosecution witnesses. This has been strongly contested by Dr. Eli K, Atikpui,…

Government has scrapped the system of bonding trainee nurses and midwives in the country on the back of its inability to employ the thousands of graduates currently pushing jobs in the public health sector. “Bonding is stopped now,” Deputy Health minister Tina Mensah announced Thursday, but did not give details on when the decision was taken by government. Government in 2005 introduced the bonding of trainee nurses and midwives to curb the brain drain in the health sector, which it said, was impacting negatively on health delivery in the country. Under the system, nurses trained in public health training institutions…

Uganda’s ethics and integrity minister has announced plans to re-introduce the controversial anti-gay law which was nullified by the Constitutional Court in 2014. Simon Lokodo told news agency Reuters that when the new bill becomes law offenders will be sentenced to death: “Our current penal law is limited. It only criminalises the act. We want it made clear that anyone who is even involved in promotion and recruitment has to be criminalised. Those that do grave acts will be given the death sentence.” He added that “homosexuality is not natural to Ugandans” and there had been a “massive recruitment by…

Source: 3news.com 

Deputy Attorney General, Joseph Dindiok Kpemka, has said it will amount to political persecution if William Ato Essien and three others were charged based on the comments of Mr. Essien in the media. Mr. Essien, in an interview that went viral, accused the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta and board chairman of Enterprise Group, Kelli Gadzekpo of trying to buy the Capital Bank in 2016. But Mr. Kpemka told 3news.com it would be out of place to assume that the suit against Ato Essien was influenced by his media outburst. “We are not thinking about the comment people are making, we…

The CEO of Africa Integras, Andrea Pizziconi has denied accusing the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Prof. Ebenezer Oduro-Owusu, of sexually harassing her. In the wake of the explosive documentary on “sex for grades” by the BBC which included Ghana’s premier university, Pizziconi shared a tweet suggesting her company’s US$64m infrastructure investment at UG suffered as a result of a sex scandal. “I have remained mostly quiet despite the battery of attacks by Professor Ebenezer Oduro Owusu on my dignity. I was advised not to make waves and definitely not to raise the #metoo flag if I wanted…

The Greater Accra Regional Coordinator of the Nation Builders Corps (NaBCo), Mohammed Baba is blaming trainees for the delay in the payment of their stipends. At a press briefing to outline activities for the first anniversary of the programme, he observed that the late submission of time sheet as well as the refusal to update their personal information on the portal are some of the causes of the delay. NaBCo trainees in August threatened to demonstrate over delayed allowances. The group petitioned government to release allowances of beneficiaries which they claimed had not been paid since November 2018. But the…

The Fisheries Commission has fined Gyinam Fisheries Limited, owners of the Lu Rong Yuan industrial trawler, one million dollars for engaging in Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing in the Western Region. An additional fine of GHC 124,000 was imposed on the company for being cost of fish found on board the vessel. The fine is in accordance with of Fisheries (Amendment) Act, 2014 (Act 880). Narrating events leading to the arrest, the Command Operations Officer for the Western Naval Command, Commander Theophilus Kafui Agbemabiesa said a team of naval personnel while on sea patrol on Sunday, 16 June 2019…

The Fisheries Commission has fined Gyinam Fisheries Limited, owners of the Lu Rong Yuan industrial trawler, one million dollars for engaging in Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing in the Western Region. An additional fine of GHC 124,000 was imposed on the company for being cost of fish found on board the vessel. The fine is in accordance with of Fisheries (Amendment) Act, 2014 (Act 880). Narrating events leading to the arrest, the Command Operations Officer for the Western Naval Command, Commander Theophilus Kafui Agbemabiesa said a team of naval personnel while on sea patrol on Sunday, 16 June 2019…

The Chief Executive of Advanced Body Sculpt Centre, popularly known as Obengfo Hospital, Dr Dominic Obeng Andoh, has asked Ghanaians not to be concerned about his certificate in liposuction but the quality his work. “Let no one think that Dr Obeng Andoh is doing everything bad,” he told TV3’s Wendy Laryea Thursday when asked to comment on the training he had before venturing into liposuction procedure in the country. The man, who is popularly known as Dr Obengfo, said his expertise has attracted a broad base clientele from across the globe, including his wife and even wives of some medical…