Pharmaceutical company, Ernest Chemists limited (ECL), has donated medical supplies to the two main designated hospitals for the COVID-19 pandemic. The beneficiaries, Greater Accra Regional Hospital and the Tema General Hospital, were supplied with examination gloves, exyzal disinfectants, Dextrose 5% infusion, Rubbing Alcohol, multivitamins and hand sanitisers. The ECL, which is one of the leading … Read more
Police in the Ashanti Region has rearrested the head pastor of Open Arms Ministries, Apostle Kofi Nkansah Sarkodie, for once again holding a church service despite the ban on religious activities because of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Apostle Kofi Nkansah Sarkodie and two of his church members were first arrested on Wednesday for defying the president’s order … Read more
Ghana has legalized the use of cannabis for health and industrial purposes as it joins other African countries hoping to derive economic and health benefits from the substance. On Friday the country’s Parliament passed into law the Narcotics Control Commission Bill, 2019. The law now makes the country’s Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) a Commission with enhanced powers … Read more
A woman who tested positive for coronavirus gave birth to a healthy baby at an Athens hospital, Greek media reported on Thursday. The 24-year-old woman and her partner had both tested positive before the delivery on Wednesday, but the first test on the baby came back negative for COVID-19. “The virus is not transmitted by the placenta,” the … Read more
The leader and founder of Creator’s Hand Chapel (CHC), Prophet Eric Boahen has announced how church services will be held regardless of the ban on public gatherings by the president of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo over the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking in an interview with Zion Felix on Radio Univers’ ‘Brunch2Lunch’ entertainment show, Prophet Boahen said the … Read more
Ghanaian actor and musician, Lil win entreats Ghanaians to remain calm in the quest to defeat the Coronavirus pandemic. Lilwin, in recent times had been spreading awareness on the need to promote self-hygiene to safeguard lives and help curb the spread of the virus. “Firstly I would urge Ghanaians to adhere to all preventive and … Read more
East Cantonment Pharmaceutical Ltd has donated 10 Cartons of Surgical gloves and 2 Cartons of Examination gloves to Korle Bu to aid in the Hospital’s fight against the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. The items worth GHc 6,500 were received by the CEO Dr. Daniel Asare who called for support of other needed Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) … Read more
Africa should “prepare for the worst” as the coronavirus begins to spread locally, the World Health Organization’s director-general said Wednesday, while South Africa became the continent’s new focus of concern as cases nearly doubled to 116 from two days before. South Africa’s health minister, Zweli Mkhize, this week called that kind of rate “explosive” in … Read more
A new epidemic disease treatment centre is being constructed at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in preparedness to deal with the novel coronavirus and other infectious diseases. The facility, with a 50-bed capacity, is expected to be completed in a month will augment the existing ones at the Tema General Hospital and the Ridge Hospital. … Read more
Coronavirus, which is the current viral infection the world is dealing with has its preventive measures which are mostly good personal hygiene and sanitation; and here are some 10 good tips which you can practice whenever you sit in a commercial vehicle or popularly known as Trotro in Ghana. “These are not ordinary times,” this … Read more