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Government has strongly denied claims that it has abandoned some health infrastructural projects started by the previous government. “Government has never abandoned any health facility that was started by the previous government,” Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman-Manu stated Tuesday The Akufo-Addo government has recently been criticized by some Ghanaians and groups, particularly from the National Democratic Congress, for allegedly abandoning the construction of some hospital facilities across the country which were started under the Mahama administration. Some critics have questioned why President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced to build some 94 new hospitals across the country when ones already started with taxpayers’…

One hundred and twenty-one new coronavirus cases have seen Ghana’s tally shot up to 1,671. The number of recoveries has also moved up from the previous 155 to 188, the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye announced Tuesday. Although five new deaths have been recorded, he said they have not been captured in their system because they are now validating to establish whether they were as a result of the covid-19. The Greater Accra Region  still leads with 1,433 cases followed by  the Ashanti Region  with 84 cases and Eastern Region with 57 cases. The Upper East…

A 42-year-old woman has been arrested at Asikuma in the Oti Region for allegedly making a fake baby bump out of slabs of compressed dried leaves which immigration officials suspected to be Indian hemp. Mavis Adubea who is from Nkonya, is said to be a businesswoman who plies her trade in Takoradi. Immigration officials are said to have profiled the woman who they suspected to be dealing in narcotic drugs over the years. At about 8:00 p.m. Sunday, she arrived at the Asikuma Inland Checkpoint with what looked like a baby bump as she portrayed herself as pregnant woman. Immigration…

At least seven women in Ghana are said to have tested positive for the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) who are pregnant. Dr. Gabriel Benaku, Chairman for Coalition of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) on Health, who revealed this to Stephen Anti on TV3’s Midday Live Tuesday fears the disease could have effect on the unborn babies. “We already have spotted 7 pregnant women who are infected with covid-19,” he said, “that have implication on their children, and their immediate family.” As of April 26, 2020 Ghana has recorded a total of 1,550 cases of covid-19 since the disease was first confirmed in the…

Virologist at Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Dr. Michael Owusu has called for more hands as well as logistics to enhance the capacity of rapid testing at the center. He has revealed the Centre currently has over 10,000 backlog of COVID 19 samples yet to be tested, indicating that their work is being hampered by inadequate staff and logistics. According to him, the situation is putting pressure on the staff to work extra hours in ensuring more testing are done to offload or reduce the backlog. Dr. Owusu disclosed this to Nana Yaw Opare (a. k.…

Singer Adina is not interested in starting beef with any musician in the music industry. The singer says she does not think beefs will take her where she wants to go in the Ghanaian and global music space. For some days now, ‘MTW’, a song by Sista Afia, has ignited a lot of controversy after its release last week Wednesday. While Sista Afia did not mention names, some people have concluded that Sista Afia took jabs at Sister Derby, Wendy Shay, Efia Odo in the song. The song has seen counter jabs and reactions from Sister Deborah and Akuapem Poloo.…

A third of all coronavirus deaths in England and Wales are now happening in care homes, figures show. Office for National Statistics data showed there were 2,000 coronavirus care home deaths in the week ending 17 April – double the previous week. Projections for the following week – up to last Friday – suggested the numbers have since continued to rise. It comes as coronavirus hospital deaths have started falling after peaking on 8 April. Mike Padgham, of the Independent Care Group, which represents care homes, said care homes were now the “true front line” in the fight against coronavirus.…

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) Ethics Committee has received the raw footage of the “Number 12 exposé” – a documentary that exposed alleged bribery and corruption in African football which was produced by the investigative firm of investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas. Tiger Eye PI, the Accra-based investigative organization on June 6, 2018, premiered anti-graft investigations involving Ghanaian football officials. The documentary resulted in the resignation of former Ghana Football Association President Kwesi Nyantakyi. Mr Nyantakyi was subsequently banned from football for life by world football governing body FIFA for breaking bribery, conflict of interest and corruption rules. Nyantakyi was…

Muslims in some communities of Accra have stated that although praying at home alone during the month of Ramadan was unpleasant, the President’s directives were also useful as it will prevent the spread of coronavirus. “Ideally praying as a group during the month of Ramadan consolidate our gains as Muslims, but under the circumstances of the coronavirus pandemic, we just have to cope with the situation until it improves, Alhaji Mohammed Aziz said in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Accra.President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo during his eighth television broadcast to the Nation on Sunday evening updated on…

The Director of Communications at the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) has maintained that the government is committed to completing “abandoned” hospitals in addition to the 88 district hospitals. Mr. George Ayisi asserted that government has not abandoned any hospital but was only adding to existing health facilities to improve health care delivery. President Akufo-Addo during his 8th address on efforts in fighting the corona virus explained that 88 100-bed capacity will be constructed in districts that do not have hospitals. Concerns have been raised by opposition political parties as to when the construction will commence and accused the government…