HEALTH

Sheikh Al Maktoum, the agent in Ghana’s botched attempt to procure Sputnik V vaccines has agreed to refund a total of US$2.470 million to the government being the “remaining amount for the non-supplied doses” of the vaccines. Sheikh Al Maktoum was due to supply about 300, 000 Sputnik V vaccines …

The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has acted on the Parliamentary Ad hoc Committee’s recommendation that an amount of ¢16,331,640 be retrieved from Sheikh Al Maktoum. Mr Agyeman-Manu requested the refund per letter dated August 2. “By this letter, I also wish to formally request for the refund of the …

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has given the government up to September 30, 2021, to settle outstanding arrears to its members or face a strike. In a communiqué issued after a National Executive Council meeting, the Association said the strike would begin from October 1, 2021, with the suspension of …

Government’s ambitious hospitals initiative dubbed Agenda 111 is set to commence in August 2021. Presenting the 2021 mid-year budget review in Parliament on Thursday, July 29, 2021, the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, disclosed that the government has decided to execute the initiative in two phases with the first phase …

  The Ministry of Health (MOH) has announced to recruit Allied Health Professionals and Pharmacy Cadres who completed various public and private training institutions and wrote their licensure examination in 2019. In a statement copied to MyGhanaMedia.com, the Ministry said the recruitment portal from Tuesday, August 3, 2021, will be …

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has approved two more COVID-19 vaccines for importation, distribution and use in Ghana. The two new vaccine4s are Moderna (Spikevax) and Pfizer-BioNtech (Cominaty).             This brings the total number of approved COVID-19 vaccines for the use in Ghana to …

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has issued an alert to residents within the metropolis to adhere to all the safety protocols of Covid-19 as a matter of urgency. According to a press release issued on Monday, July 19, the Covid cases within the metropolis have been on an upsurge. It …

The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu, on Monday, July 19 appeared before the nine-member bi-partisan committee set up by Parliament to probe the botched contract between the government of Ghana and Emirati middleman Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum to procure Sputnik V vaccines. It was the second time the …

2,323 students from a total of 363 schools have tested positive for COVID-19 since the resumption of schools in January 2021. This was disclosed by the Director of Ghana Health Service, Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye at a press briefing on Wednesday, July 14, 2021.       Breaking down the figures, …

“We don’t have a culture of asking questions’, host of Joy FM’s Home Affairs, Edem Knight-Tay would remark to her guest, Dr Matthew Yamoah Kyei, a consultant urologist at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. But under the relative anonymity of radio, the men would emerge from their hideouts, revealing on Joy …