Ashanti Today

Dr. Ankobia, (left), and Dr. Kyei,  GMA after the meeting Members of the Ashanti Division of the Ghana Medical Association has pledged its fullest support   to the National Executives of the Association in their struggle for a coded and signed conditions of service document for medical doctors in the public sector of Ghana.  The Division has as well pledged to its commitment to the implementation of the road map earlier outlined by the GMA in the pursue of the service conditions.  These are among other issues contained in a communiqué signed by the Divisional Chairman, Dr. Frank Ankobea, and the Secretary, Dr. Ishmael Kyei, and issued to the media in Kumasi after a meeting of the Division in Kumasi today, Thursday August 20.  The communiqué called on all colleague medical doctors employed by the Ghana Health Service and its agencies to comply with the decision taken at the extra-ordinary General Assembly Meeting of the GMA in Accra last Frida...

A nurse attending to a patient Management of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital says medical doctors at the facility have not withdrawn all their services to the public. Speaking to Ashanti Today in Kumasi, the Public Relations Officer of the Hospital, Kwame Frimpong noted that members of the Ghana Medical Association working at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital are still attending to in-patients and other medical situations.  The PRO confirmed also to Ashanti Today that management of the referral facility were in an emergency meeting attended by all the Departmental Heads and Directors to discuss urgent matters affecting the effective running of the hospital.  Mr. Frimpong confirmed that issues discussed at the meeting included the directive of the Minister of Health, Alex Segbefia that all public hospitals should resume the provision of full range of healthcare services to healthcare seekers.   He however declined to give out any information abou...

Tyres being used for demonstration at the forum From the first of next month, the new traffic regulations, Regulation 62 of L.I. 2180 will come into full effect. Regulation 62 is about the specific legal requirement of the caliber of tyres that will be permitted entry into, and use in Ghana such that a lorry tyre in use whose features are contrary to specifications in the law will be considered illegal and dangerous to human safety.  As part of measures to engender wider acceptance and ownership of the process during the implementation, the National Road Safety Commission, NRSC, and its collaborators have organized a day’s stakeholders’ sensitization workshop for major players in road transportation in Kumasi.  The event was well patronized by vehicle tyre importers, vulcanizers, drivers, Police and Customs officials.  Ing. May Obiri-Yeboah addressing the participants In an address, the Executive Director of the NRSC, Ingineer Mrs. May Obiri-Yeboah...

Small and Medium scale enterprises across the country have been urged to interact regularly with the National Board on Small Scale Industries and make use of the various support tools and relevant business and entrepreneurial information it has to offer for the development of their businesses.  A Senior Business Advisor of the National Board for Small Scale Industries, NBSSI in Kumasi, Samuel Asiedu who gave this advice said, although the NBSSI may not have readily available funds to support new businesses, it is endowed with modern business development support systems to help small and medium scale enterprises to grow.  Mr. Asiedu was speaking at a Small and Medium Enterprises Clinic in Kumasi, organised by the GCB Bank for about 250of its customers.  The programme, which was under the theme; “Enhancing Small and Medium Enterprises Opportunities in Today’s Market Place” coincided with the launch of the bank’s latest product christened “The Big Money Promo...