Doctors at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) have decided to attend to no more than three patients per day per doctor. This follows the doctors’ decision to review their standard operating procedures to conform to internationally acceptable standards and also to avoid overworking which exposes them to commit mistakes and incur the displeasure of the public.The measure is also to improve the quality of healthcare and ensure the safety and security of patients and staff at the facility.The

The Ghana Medical Association says it has suspended its planned March 3, 2014 withdrawal of services in recognition of efforts by the National Labour Commission (NLC) to resolve the non-payment of Conversion Difference to doctors by the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission. A letter signed by the General Secretary of the GMA, Dr. Frank Serebour, dated February 28 and addressed to the Executive Secretary of the NLC said the GMA was favourable to the relisting of the matter at the High Court in an attempt

The National Disaster management organisation, (NADMO) and its partner organisations Thursday held an emergency meeting to put in place measures to supply water to some institutions as the Kpong Water works is shut down.   The meeting, which is the third, is meant to manage the water situation in Accra when the Weija water was shut down and it brought together the relief and reconstruction technical advisory committees of NADMO, Ghana Water Company (GWC), Accra Metropolitan Assembly Health Directorate,

The head pastor of the Mankessim branch of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), Rev. Moses Kuranteng, has appeared before the Agona Swedru Circuit Court for allegedly defrauding about 54 petty traders in Swedru and its adjoining communities of GH¢14,316. Rev. Kuranteng allegedly used his Agona Swedru-based micro-finance company to swindle the customers. Rev. Kuranteng, 50, who doubles as the Chief Executive Officer of Radian Micro Finance Limited, allegedly defrauded the customers under

Following The Mirror’s publication that pregnant women have to queue for caesarian section at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, authorities at the hospital have moved in and engaged the services of more anaesthetists to stem the situation. “The waiting time has reduced drastically,” says the Head of the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department, Prof Samuel A. Obed. He said the hospital had employed more newly trained anaesthetists, and this has greatly improved the ‘queuing’ for caesarian section

Discussants at the 50th Anniversary Lectures of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana have argued that but for greed and avarice, the country has all the laws required to combat the high level corruption at all levels. They have also deplored the situation where people get paid for virtually doing no work, while others on fixed salaries idle in offices waiting patiently for the end of the month to draw their salaries. Again official vehicles serve personal and private interests, while self-seeking

Within a short period of four months, the head pastor of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), Dr Pastor Mensa Otabil, continues to show love to the underprivileged and financially handicapped members of his congregation. Since the beginning of this month that the church has engaged in various programmes to commemorate the 30th anniversary celebration of Pastor Otabil’s entry into the ministry, he has yet extended another gesture to the genuinely needy members of his congregation by

The people of Amoma in the Kintampo District are to benefit from a GH¢215,300 mechanised water project. Under the initiative of World Vision Ghana (WVG) and the Kintampo South District Assembly, the project is expected to provide potable water for the Amoma Health Centre as well. Currently, the health centre has no water supply system and staff rely on borehole water in the community to attend to patients. The sod-cutting ceremony for the start of the project coincided with the commissioning of

The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) will, from today, begin the supply of water to communities affected by the shutdown of the Kpong Water Treatment Plant. Under its schedule of supply, assembly and unit committee members, as well as opinion leaders, are to call the GWCL’s call centres or control rooms to request for tanker services on behalf of their people or in distressed areas The Chief Manager in charge of Public Relations at the GWCL, Mr Michael Agyemang, told the Daily Graphic yesterday

The Head of Press, State of Green Consortium, a public-private partnership in Denmark spearheading the transition to a green growth economy, Mr Iver Høj Nielsen, has said that Ghana has the potential for wind energy. “South Africa and Ghana have a lot of wind,” he told a group of 12 environmental journalists from Ghana, South Africa and Kenya on a Green Growth study tour of Denmark, who visited the office of the consortium known as the ‘House of Green’. The week-long tour is being organised

The Odumase-Krobo Circuit Court, presided over by Mr Asmah Akwasi Asiedu, has sentenced Aminu Ibrahim to 24 months’ imprisonment with hard labour for stealing and unlawfully entering the premises of a trader at Korletsom, a suburb of Odumase-Krobo. Ibrahim pleaded guilty to the two charges.  The prosecutor, Chief Inspector John Akuetteh, said Sophia Ampim is a trader at Korletsom, while Ibrahim, 37, is a resident of Aboabo, near Kumasi. He said on January 28, 2014 at about 11 a.m., Sophia, who

The Effiduase Magistrate Court, presided over by Mr Jacob Amponsah, has sentenced a  65-year-old timber contractor, Elvis Kwadwo Okyere, to  six months’ imprisonment for operating and harvesting timber without a valid timber utilisation contract. He was also charged for removing forest products without authority from a competent authority. Okyere pleaded guilty with explanation. The sentece was based on the fact that Okyere was advanced in age and had a deteriorating health condition. “Due

The Chief of Gambaga in the East Mamprusi District in the Northern Region, Gambarana Yahaha Wuni, has appealed to the government and corporate entities in Ghana to help him with resources to cater for alleged witches currently seeking refuge in his territory. The support, he said, could be in cash or kind, and would come to augment the one he has been giving to the dozens of women accused of witchcraft and now lodging at the Gambaga Witches Camp. The chief, who acts as the spiritual overseer of

A representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Ms Dennia Gyale, has identified gender-based discrimination as one major challenge to the attainment of gender equality. She said, for instance, most young girls who dropped out of school after primary education were left with no qualification or skills to make them employable on the job market or set up their own businesses. Community durbar Speaking at a community durbar organised by the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection

The European Union (EU) has supported Christian Aid and Send-Ghana, both non-governmental organisations, with a grant of £656,180 to implement a project in maternal healthcare in some 30 districts in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions. The three-year project is aimed at contributing to the effective delivery of maternal health services in Ghana, with the specific objective of ensuring that citizens in the selected districts effectively held the government accountable in order to improve

One of the accused persons in the GH¢4.1 million GYEEDA case has finally met bail conditions imposed by the Financial Division of the High Court. He has been in lawful custody for four weeks, four days. Philip Akpeena Assibit, who was on January 24, 2014 granted a GH¢2 million bail, with four sureties, two to be justified, could not meet the bail conditions and thus had to be transferred from police custody into prison custody. Counsel for Assibit, Mr Raymond Bagnabu, told the Daily Graphic in

The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur, has described the female porters (kayayei ) phenomenon as a national challenge that can only be addressed through a holistic national and inter-sectoral approach. “The development, well being and best interest of these young girls must be a priority of all of us and not my ministry alone. A holistic national and inter sectoral approach is what is required to solve the problem. This would require ministry and the ministries

President John Dramani Mahama yesterday inaugurated the rehabilitated 60km Asante Bekwai - Assin  Praso trunk road with a call on Ghanaians, particularly the youth, to bear with the government as it initiates action to either construct new roads and rehabilitate existing ones. Speaking at Assin Praso in the Central Region Thursday, he said the government did not have the resources to work on all roads at the same  time, adding that little by little all the roads would be fixed He, therefore, expressed

Seven officials of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) have been arrested in connection with the missing body of a stillborn baby at the hospital. All the seven, who have been charged with two counts of stealing and conspiracy to steal, have been released on police enquiry bail, while the docket on the case has been sent to the Attorney-General’s (A-G’s) Department for advice. The Ashanti Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Yussif Tanko, who

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has ordered the board, the management and the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) to, within 14 days, account for five stillborns delivered on February 5, 2014. The ministry has also ordered the doctor and the midwife who were on duty when a stillborn baby got missing to proceed on leave. The ministry directed a 58-year-old orderly who is alleged to have caused the disappearance of the body of the baby, together with two others,