The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) will fully roll-out a mechanism to involve the public more in its accountability process, Deputy Chief Executive, Operations, Dr Lydia Baaba Dsane-Selby has said. A lack of proper accountability by some service providers of the national health insurance scheme, and outright fraud, has hobbled development of the scheme for some time now. In a ...

Data released by the Bank of Ghana last week reveals that mobile money is now the leading platform for payments in Ghana outside of cash itself. During the first half of 2018, not only were more payment transactions executed through mobile money than through any other type of non-cash payments platform, but mobile money became the biggest form of payments ...

When i left secondary school in 1987, I did one year national service before entering university. In those days, national service was for two years. But because of university students’ agitations, the universities had been closed down for some time, leading to an admissions backlog. The one-year vacuum was, therefore, used for national service purposes. I lived in Tarkwa with ...

Ghana’s health sector is estimated to lose about $500 million every year due to large amounts of waste, fraud, corruption, diversion of resources and accounting irregularities. The Founder and President of mPedigree, Mr Bright Simons, who disclosed this in Accra yesterday, said although Ghana spent more of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the health sector than most countries in ...

Participants at a day’s workshop on anti-corruption have acknowledged the need for the fight against corruption to start with the individual. “Corruption, no doubt continue to ruin the developmental fortunes of the nation and it is estimated that over three billion dollars is lost to the practice annually in the country, wealth which otherwise could have been invested in schools, ...

There are domestic and international laws and conventions that generally frown on all forms of discrimination, some of which relate to employment and wages. Chapter 5, Article 17 (2) of the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana clearly forbids discrimination in all forms on the grounds of “race, place of origin, political opinion, colour, religion, creed, gender, social or ...

Some residents in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis are living in fear following the alleged kidnapping of two young girls within three days in the area. According to sources, the first incident happened on Wednesday, August 15, when a 16-year-old senior high school student was kidnapped about hundred metres from her house at New Site near Takoradi. The young girl was abandoned the ...

The 2017 Ghana Maternal Health Survey (GMHS) Report has revealed that there has been remarkable improvement in maternal health indicators since the conduct of the first Maternal Health Survey in 2007. According to the report, launched in Accra on Thursday, mothers in Ghana are healthier now than ever before and are seeking and obtaining the health care they need. It ...

The low level of reproductive health education is a contributory factor to teenage pregnancies. A total of 6,269 teenage pregnancies were recorded in the Ashanti Region between January and June this year, Dr. Kwasi Yeboah-Awudzi, Deputy Regional Director of Public Health, Ghana Health Services (GHS), has disclosed. Out of this, 192 fell below age 14. The region also recorded 12,723 ...

Poultry farmers have been admonished to provide their birds with the right feed to ensure healthy and optimal growth of their birds in order to boost the poultry industry and their incomes. They have also been encouraged to adhere to best poultry production practices and seek information from relevant institutions to help them improve on their business. The Deputy Chief ...