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Nkawkaw Holy Family Hospital receives donor support
• Officials of the hospital receiving the items
A United States of America-based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Yaco International Inc. has donated US $40,000.00 worth of medical equipment to the Holy Family Hospital at Nkawkaw in the Eastern Region.
The equipment comprise six sitting parapodia for kids, One adult tilt bed, three bales containing 126 brand new blankets and 42 pieces of thermometers.
Making the donation, Mr. Stephen Agbo, Chief Executive Officer of Yaco International said that his entire family had adopted the hospital as their second home because some of his children were born in the facility hence his decision to help raise the image of the hospital.
He said the items were contributed by friends in the diaspora especially those in America, and called on others to do same.
Meanwhile management of holy Family Hospital has made a passionate appeal to the Ministry of Health especially Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) to assist the hospital with computed Tomography (CT) Scan equipment to enable members of staff to work efficiently.
Receiving the items, Dr. Isaac Adu-PokuAntwi, Medical Director, said that though the hospital lacked a lot of amenities, the most pressing one was the scan equipment.
He said that the Holy Family Hospital was strategically positioned in between five districts in the Eastern and Ashanti regions which called for urgent attention from the government, individuals and non-governmental organisations.
“The hospital is the first port of call of most critical accidents which occur on that stretch of the road.
“Sometimes we sit down helplessly and just watch people dying because of lack of equipment, oh my God, but what can we do?
I am passionately appealing to our brothers and sisters home and abroad, NGOs and philanthropists to come to our aid to save lives of our families and friends,” he said.
By Spectator Reporter, Nkawkaw
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Furnish my office with list of all frequency authorisations issued in last 60 days – Sam George instructs NCA Ag.General
The Minister for Communication, Digital
Technology and Innovations has instructed the Ag Director General of the National Communications Authority to furnish his office with a list of all frequency authorisations issued or renewed in the last sixty (60) days.
According to him, this forms part of the government’s Operation Recover All Loot agenda.
He noted that the Minister considers it a mandate to ensure that all State resources within the purview of the Ministry which have been handed over to private interests in a manner inconsistent with law and laid down procedure must be recovered for the benefit of the State.
This marks the first phase in what would be a complete audit of all frequency authorisations to ensure sanity in the use of State resources in the broadcasting space.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
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President Mahama orders investigations into National Service Authority ghost names scandal
President John Dramani Mahama has ordered the National Investigations Bureau (NIB) to conduct
immediate investigations into the operations of the National Service Authority under the previous
government following the discovery of up to 81,885 suspected ghost names on the payroll of the
Authority.
The ghost names were detected following a head count of active National Service personnel at
the behest of the Minister for Finance as a prerequisite for the dearance of allowance arrears dating back to August 2024.
The Ministry of Finance has upon the completion of the head count, released an amount of GHS
226,019,224 covering allowance payment arrears for 98,145 actual National Service Personnel.
This figure is 81,885 less than the 180,030 names presented by the previous management of the
Authority for allowance payment in 2024.
President Mahama has also tasked the new management of the Authority to carry out urgent reforms with the view to establishing adequate controls to prevent a recurrence of the
phenomenon of ghost names.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
