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54 Babies Die At Sunyani Hospital Due To Lack Of Incubators

The Neonatal Unit of the Sunyani Regional Hospital in the Brong Ahafo Region recorded a total of 54 deaths within the first six months of the year due to the lack of incubators at the referral facility. Even though the unit receives about seven pre-term babies a day, it only has four incubators, thereby compelling health personnel to tuck up ...

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Media Foundation calls for digital empowerment of citizenry

Sulemana Braimah, MFWA

Mr Sulemana Braimah, Executive Director, Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), has called for the digital empowerment of the citizens of African countries to enable them to demand accountability from their leaders through the internet. He said the internet was an effective tool, which would enable the citizens to participate in the democratic governance of their nations and also demand ...

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Don’t Abolish Death Penalty – Oquaye

Prof. Mike_Ocquaye, speaker of Parliament

Speaker of Parliament, Prof Mike Oquaye has kicked against calls for the scrapping of the death penalty in Ghana’s statute books. The death penalty has been in Ghana’s statute books since the application of the English common law in 1874, but in practice, no execution has been recorded since July 1993, when then-President Jerry John Rawlings ordered the execution of ...

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Govt urged to commit more resources into renewable energy

Mr Kofi Bentil

Imani Centre for Policy and Education, a think tank, has urged the government to consider committing adequate resources into Ghana’s renewable energy systems to boost the country’s capacity to exploit its abundant natural energy sources. It observed that while the government had many policies on renewable energy, there was the need for concerted action to create a real market and ...

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Bushfires Disturbing Cashew Farmers

Cashew farmers in the Techiman North District of Brong-Ahafo Region at the weekend expressed worry about recurring bushfire outbreaks in the area which is causing great havoc to their economic activities. According to members of the Kroye Farmers Association, unscrupulous activities of hunters, Fulani herdsmen and palm wine tappers remained major causes of the bushfires and called for firm and ...

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Nurses, midwives in the country need higher education – Dr. Kwaku Asante-Krobea

Dr Kwaku Asante-Krobea

Nurses and midwives in the country need higher education in order to enhance healthcare delivery at various health facilities. This is according to the Principal for the Peri-Operative and Critical Nursing School, Dr. Kwaku Asante-Krobea, will ultimately promote the dignity of the healthcare profession as patients will be in safer hands. “I will never drop my conviction that patients are ...

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SEND Ghana,UNICEF collaborate to give voice to Ghanaians

The constitution of Ghana and other key legislations mandate government to give Ghanaians the opportunity to participate in governance at the national, regional and district levels. The 1992 constitution stipulates how the state should engage citizens and how citizens should be involved in the decision-making process. That is why section 40 of Act 936, for example, states that: “A district ...

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12,000 Kidney Failures In Ghana Each Year

Dialysis Service Foundation (DSF) has appealed to corporate organisations and persons with resources to help support needy kidney patients. According to the foundation, an average of 12,000 kidney failure cases are detected among Ghanaian patients every year. Speaking at the launch of DSF fundraising, a board member of the foundation, Dela Herman Agbo indicated that DSF would provide subsidised or ...

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Alcohol kills over 3 million people annually

Three million and over people died as a result of harmful use of alcohol in 2016, according to a report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday. This represents one in 20 deaths and more than three-quarters of these deaths were among men. The harmful use of alcohol, overall, causes more than five per cent of the global ...

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Corruption Is Sinking Ghana – CHRAJ

Mr Richard Quayson, Deputy Commissioner, Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), has expressed concern about how corrupt practices are sinking the fortunes of the nation. He said Ghana loses about three billion dollars annually to corruption and this represents about 300 per cent of all aid inflows to the nation. Mr Quayson, who was speaking at a National ...

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