Flokefama, Mindray train hospital engineers in West Africa
Flokefama
A leading medical equipment solutions company, Flokefama, together with its international partner, Mindray, have held a week-long training conference for West African hospital engineers.
The conference which started on Monday, August 12, is aimed at ensuring quality after sales service of all In Vitro diagnostic equipment at the various hospitals.
It would also aid Ghanaian biomedical engineers to ensure that Flokefama and Mindray equipment installations in facilities like the University of Ghana Medical Centre, The Trust Hospital and the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, among others were catered for.
In his opening address, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Flokefama, Mr Emmanuel Kwabena Kenney, said the training of these technicians who operate such equipment was crucial to saving lives and ensuring standardisation.
For this reason he said, any time there were challenges they had to fly in engineers from Kenya, Ethiopia, China and the United States of America to fix them.
“What we have done is to bridge the gap. We have brought these engineers to train our local engineers. What we have is the Flokefama/Mindray West African Engineers training with participants from Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, and Cote d’Ivoire among others. We are hosting them at our IBD Training Centre at Kwashieman/Santa Maria,” he said.
Mr Kenney said that locally, engineers from these hospitals would be trained “so that when these equipment have a challenges, or the standardisation are not being met, or it’s producing false results they will know what to do.”
On maintenance culture, he said, managing and taking care of various equipment was the most important, and therefore called on leadership of the various hospitals to prioritise it.
He further revealed that the training would be rolled out across the major regions and against this backdrop, urged hospitals, both public and private to get in touch and take advantage.
Mr Kenney disclosed that at the end of the training, certificates would be awarded by Flokefama and Mindray.
He was optimistic that training from the crack team from Ethiopia, Kenya and China will go a long way to further impact the local technicians.
Some of the participants expressed their appreciation for the training and recommended that other facilities take advantage of the opportunity to train their engineers.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
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We have built enough buffers to pay all DDEP obligations – Finance Minister Ato Forson
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Speaking at a high-level meeting with over 22 Managing Directors of banks, he reaffirmed the government’s commitment to fiscal responsibility and restoring confidence in the financial sector.
“We do not intend to default,” Dr. Forson declared.
“All outstanding holdouts have been paid, and we have put in place the necessary buffers to ensure that every single DDEP obligation for this year will be met.”
The Minister explained that these buffers were created through fiscal discipline, strategic investment cuts, and prudent resource allocation.
As part of this approach, the government has reset goods and services expenditure to 2023 levels and is working to achieve a primary surplus of 1.5% to sustain economic stability.
He also announced plans to submit a fiscal responsibility rule to Parliament, which will set a debt ceiling that the Ministry of Finance cannot exceed.
This measure aims to prevent excessive borrowing and reinforce financial discipline.
Beyond ensuring timely DDEP payments, Dr Forson revealed that the government is taking deliberate steps to reduce reliance on the Treasury bill market.
By improving coordination between fiscal and monetary policies, the government aims to stabilize interest rates and ease liquidity pressures on the banking sector.
Source: Myjoyonline.com
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NSA commences President Mahama’s ‘Nkoko Nkitikiti’ vision
President Mahama’s Vision in Progress as the National Service Authority has received 10,000 “Nkoko Nkitikiti” (Day Old Chicks ) earlier this morning.
Their ongoing 100,000 Poultry infrastructure will be receiving 10,000 Day Old Chicks every few weeks until they hit their 100,000 mark for Broilers at a site in NSA Demonstration farm in Accra.
NSA is working assiduously nationwide with partners to put the infrastructure in place for hundreds of thousands of Poultry Capacity for Broilers in clusters.
Egg production is also top of their agenda in separate projects. NSA is currently putting in place the infrastructure that will receive thousands of layers in President Mahama’s quest to bring down the cost of eggs.
They expect to expand their poultry capacity base in furtherance of President Mahama’s vision to reduce the importation of poultry products and create employment
