US$56.52 million project for famers in Northern, Upper East Regions
Selected farmers in the Northern and Upper East regions are to benefit from a US$56.52 million African Development Bank loan facility to fund an initiative dubbed 'Savannah Agricultural Productivity Improvement…
Mental Health Authority underscores need for care levy
The Mental Health Authority (MHA) has underscored the need for establishing a levy that would provide the needed funding to service mental health care in the country. Dr Akwasi Osei,…
Uncontrolled Hypertension Killing Ghanaians
More than half of Ghana’s population has never checked their blood pressure before, Dr. Efua Commeh, Deputy Programmes Director, Non-Communicable Disease, Ghana Health Service (GHS), has revealed. She explained that…
Climate Change actions must address gender inequality – UNDP
The United Nations Development Programme {UNDP} has called for concerted efforts to consider the special needs, concerns, knowledge and experiences of both male and female in climate change adaptation and…
130 Countries sign ‘Declaration of Astania’-To strengthen primary health coverage
Countries around the globe have signed a declaration vowing to strengthen their primary health care systems as an essential step towards achieving universal health coverage {UHC}. The “Declaration of Astana”,…
Two NGOs to build one million toilets
Two non-governmental organisations {NGOs}, Yapa Environment and Sulabh International Centre for Action Sociology { SICAS}, have started the construction of one million ''Twin Pit'' toilet facilities across the country in…
Electricity Consumers To Choose Their Own Suppliers By 2023—Energy Commission
Energy consumers will by 2023 choose their own power suppliers as part of reforms to make the power supply subsector more competitive. Per the new arrangement, smaller private entities will…
Professor Akosa urges Ghanaians to adopt healthy lifestyle
Professor Agyemang Badu Akosa, former Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, has called on Ghanaians to adopt a healthy lifestyle so as to prolong their lives and contribute to national…
We’ll work on Ghana Mental Health LI — Speaker
The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, has assured stakeholders in mental health care that the House will work towards the passage of the Legislative Instrument{LI} on Ghana's Mental…
Ghana has 70 per cent more resources in the sea compared to land
Dr Kamal-Deen Ali, the Executive Director of Centre for Maritime, Law and Security (CEMLAWS) has said maritime is critical to national development and should be considered whenever boundaries were being…
