The Ghana Medical Association, GMA, has announced a suspension of its three-week old strike which sought to demand improved and well-documented conditions of service for doctors. A statement issued by the association said the National Executive Council, NEC, considered the appeals from members of general public, the clergy, and the National Council of Chiefs, influential […]
President John Dramani Mahama was at the 37 Military Hospital Thursday night to visit members of his press corps involved in a fatal accident earlier in the day.
President of the Ghana Journalists Association, Dr. Affail Monney, has described the death of Ghanaian Times Reporter Samuel Nuamah, as tragic and terrible for the media fraternity. The Times reporter, who was part of President Mahama’s press corps on their way to Accra from the Volta Regional capital Ho, died in a ghastly accident on
One person has been confirmed dead in an accident involving a team of media personnel attached to the presidency. The accident is believed to have occurred around Dodowa. The journalists were returning from the Volta Region Thursday afternoon. Details of the accident are sketchy, but reports suggest one of the two buses carrying the media
Some public sector doctors in Ghana’s capital, Accra, have resumed work and are attending to patients in clear defiance of the ongoing strike by the Ghana Medical Association (GMA).
The National Labor Commission, NLC, has instructed the Ghana Medical Association, GMA, to immediately call of its three week-old strike. The commission in a communique issued after talks with all the parties involved in the impasse, asked the GMA and the government to resume negotiations immediately and report back to it on Monday August 24.
Johnson Kombian, a farmer and businessman, who was accused of killing two police officers in the Northern Region of Ghana, has been sentenced to death by hanging, on two counts of murder.
General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketia has described as “fraudulent” and “frivolous” claims by the opposition New Patriotic Party(NPP) that Ghana’s voters’ register is bloated.
The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has asked its members to stay resolute in the face of “threats and intimidations” from government.
Ghana has been granted a 300 million dollar grant by the Global Fund for medical supplies. President Mahama says the grant has come at an opportune time as the country’s health needs keep soaring. There has been several efforts to replace destroyed medical stock following the inferno that razed the central medical stores in Tema.
