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Two cases of polio have been recorded in the Ashanti Region as at the second week of February this year Health Authorities are currently assessing the risk factors for management. “Ghana was doing well with no polio outbreaks but we have started recording some new cases which we are not taking lightly so we are starting the Inactivated Polio Mass Vaccination to help curb further outbreaks in the country,” Ashanti Regional Health Director, Dr Emmanuel Tinkorang noted. He explained that the nationwide Inactivated Polio Vaccination which starts on Wednesday is to help reduce an outbreak of polio About 446,874 children…

Awake Purified Drinking Water, a product of Kasapreko Company Limited, has donated an amount of GHC 75,000 to the Cardiothoracic Center of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. The presentation to the Center was supported by celebrities such as Bola Ray, Nana Ama McBrown, Dope Nation, Kwame Eugene, Comedian OB Amponsah. Awake Mineral Water’s donation to the cardio center is a regular activity the brand has been embarking on for the past three (3) years as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility drive. The regular donation is aimed at paying for the medical bills of needy patients at the Center who require…

Dr. Issaka Yakubu Akparibo, first Ghanaian Aerospace Medicine Specialist, has indicated that one of the leading factors behind the wide spread of viruses such as the coronavirus is globalization. “With the world being more of a global village, it’s quite easy to contract diseases as these diseases travel faster rather than the years where we used to live in isolation”. He made this known at a public forum on Coronavirus held at the Executive Theatre of TV3 under the theme “Emerging Infectious Diseases (EIDs) and their effects on Public Health Management in Ghana” on Tuesday. Dr. Issaka Yakubu Akparibo also…

President of the Institute for Security, Disaster and Emergency Studies, Dr. Ishmael Norman believes the 2. 5 million cedis government has committed towards the fight against a possible outbreak of the Coronavirus is not just a joke but the biggest one. Even the allocation of 9 doctors and 26 nurses among others by the Ridge Hospital as well as “perceived adequacy” of Tema General Hospital, both designated treatment centres, to handle the outbreak is assessed by him as a “joke”. Dr. Norman made the observations during a public forum put together by Media General’s Thought Leadership Series and Vodafone Ghana…

An Aerospace Medicine specialist, Dr. Yakubu Akparibo has decried the poor infrastructure that has been put in place, as a country, to handle a possible outbreak of the deadly coronavirus in Ghana. “More of a pity,” this is how he summarized Ghana’s preparedness for the respiratory virus that has killed over 1870 across the globe. About 72,436 infections have been confirmed in mainland China. Ghana is yet to record any case of coronavirus. Dr. Yakubu Akparibo, who is also the Medical Director of Careflight, was speaking at public forum on coronavirus on Tuesday, February 18, 2020 at TV3’s Executive Theatre.…

The emergence of infectious diseases that pose threat to global health security and more recently Coronavirus has prompted media conglomerate Media General and communication giants Vodafone Ghana to assemble experts and key stakeholders in the health sector to have a discussion on the global scourge of the infectious disease. The event,  which is on the theme, ‘Emerging Infectious Diseases (EIDs) and their Effects on Public Health Management in Ghana’, will come off Tuesday, February 18, at the TV3’s Executive Theatre at 3:00pm. Experts at the forum will give a professional perspective of the nature of the disease, the risks it…

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has arrested one more person in connection with the murder of a community nurse, Ruth Ama Eshun, in the Bosomtwe District of the Ashanti Region. This brings to two the number of suspects arrested in the case. Several others have also been questioned. The 37-year old mason apprentice, Kofi Gariba alias Amanya Atiuwenti, was arrested on Thursday, February 13 to assist in investigations into the murder case. He is currently being held by the police who are preparing to put him before court. The first suspect, Dominic Fosu, 35 years, was arrested on  February  5,…

Week five of the Ghana Women’s Premier League treated fans to some thrilling and exciting football outcomes at the weekend in both the northern and southern zones. While several of the top stars struggle to stamp their authority on the league, some are doing amazing things. With 10 goals in five matches, Ophelia Serwaa Amponsah has taken the league by storm. Her three goals helped the Ampem Ladies secure a mouthwatering 7-1 victory over Supreme Ladies in Kumasi to close the gap on northern zone leaders, Prison’s ladies. Sensational Ophelia Serwaa is excited for her amazing skills. “I’m very happy…

A 19-year-old man has been arrested by he police at Akim Oda for allegedly kidnapping a nine-year-old boy at Jamaica, a suburb of Akim Asuboa in the Eastern Region. The suspect claiming to be a stranger from Accra, according to the Police,  asked the 9-year-old victim (name withheld) last Sunday to show him the way leading from Akim Asuboa to Akim Manso which is a neighbouring town. He is said to have taken advantage of that to kidnap the little boy. “Later in the afternoon, the suspect called the mother of the victim on mobile phone to demand an amount…

At least 20 people, many of them women and children, have been killed in a stampede in south-eastern Niger, reports say. Refugees from neighbouring Nigeria were queuing for food and money in the town of Diffa when the incident took place, according to local sources. Ten other people were injured. The region is home to around 120,000 people displaced by years of violence carried out by Boko Haram militants in north-eastern Nigeria. People rushed forward to collect aid supplies when the gates of the facility were opened early on Monday, the BBC’s Is’haq Khalid in Nigeria reports. The aid was…