Ghana’s Former President John Mahama has called for the resignation of the Health Minister after he openly admitted that the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has failed. The Member of Parliament for Dormaa Central and also Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu says the Scheme is no longer working, admitting …
Read More »Ashanti Region: Poor Road, Lack Of Electricity Supply Delay Commissioning Of Sawua Hospital
Poor road network and electricity have delayed the commissioning of the 250 bed Sawua Regional Hospital. Although the hospital is completed and ready to be operationalized, the road leading to facility is yet to be constructed. The 250 bed Ashanti Regional Hospital was constructed by Messrs Euroget De-Invest. The hospital …
Read More »Health Minister ‘Exposes’ Former Dept. Finance Minister
The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, yesterday told an Accra High Court that former Deputy Minister of Finance under the erstwhile John Dramani Mahama administration, Dr. Casiel Ato Forson, instructed the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to establish letters of credit in favour of the company that supplied defective ambulances to …
Read More »Causing Financial loss To The State: Health Minister To Testify Against Former Dep. Finance Minister, Ato Forson Today
The Health Minister will today, Thursday, June 16, make an appearance in court to testify in the trial of former Deputy Finance Minister, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson. Kwaku Agyeman-Manu will be the 3rd witness for the prosecution in the trial. He is expected to further the case of the …
Read More »“It Is Too Early To Predict Whether We Will Finish Agenda 111 Project Or Not” – Health Minister
The Minister of Health , Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has said it is too early for him to predict when the Agenda 111 project, a project initiated by the Akufo-Addo administration to build hospitals across the country, will be completed although the government is highly optimistic of finishing it. He revealed …
Read More »Sputnik-V Fiasco: Attempts To Remove Health Minister An Act In Bad Faith – Majority
The Majority in Parliament is accusing the Minority of bad faith with its motion for a vote of censure on the Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman Manu. The house after months of delay finally adopted the report of the Ad-hoc committee set up to probe the botched Sputnik-V deal. But …
Read More »Agenda 111 Projects Facing Challenges But We’re On Course – Health Minister
The Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, has disclosed that the government’s ambitious Agenda 111 project has made progress of 35 percent amid some challenges. Speaking on Ghana Television, Mr. Agyeman-Manu, explained what had held some projects back. “On average, we have done close to about 35 percent works on all the …
Read More »Amidu ‘Fires’ Ofori Atta Over Sputnik V Deal, Describes Him As De Facto Co-President
Former Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu has criticised the Finance Minister Ken Ofori Ata over the botched Sputnik V contract that was signed by the Heath Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu. Martin Amidu has an issue with the posture of Mr Ofori Atta on the report of the investigative parliamentary committee that uncovered …
Read More »I Have Been Guided By Mandate To Protect Public Purse And Save Lives At All Times – Agyeman-Manu
Embattled Health Minister in his first press release after the brouhaha surrounding the botched procurement of Sputnik-V vaccines from Sheikh Al-Maktoum says he has been observing the national interest surrounding his role in the deal. Kwaku Agyeman-Manu said his actions since his assumption of office has been to “protect the …
Read More »Agyeman-Manu Granted Two-Week Leave To Attend To ‘Personal Issues’
he Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu is currently on a two-week leave to enable him attend to some personal issues. The request was granted by the Chief of Staff, Akosua Frema Osei-Opare. He officially began the leave last week. Earlier reports suggested that the Minister had resigned from his position, …
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