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Viral Drug Video Renews Debate Over San Francisco's Fentanyl Crisis
1+ hour, 13+ min ago (287+ words) News Ghana A video showing people in a severe drug-induced state on a downtown San Francisco street has gone viral on social media, reigniting fierce debate over how the city is handling its long-running fentanyl and homelessness crisis, even as…...
Zoomlion Welcomes Parliamentary Oversight, Pledges Stronger Sanitation Delivery in Central Region
2+ day, 35+ min ago (522+ words) The Director of Communications and Corporate Affairs at Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Emma Adwoa Appiaah Osei-Duah, has expressed the company's appreciation to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Sanitation and Water Resources for what she described as a fair and objective oversight…...
Global Experts Gather in Accra to Confront Rising Cardiometabolic Disease Burden
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (282+ words) Health experts, researchers and policymakers from around the world are meeting in Accra this week under the Collaborative Care for Cardiometabolic Disease (CREATE) programme, as part of a coordinated push to strengthen the response to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) across sub-Saharan…...
Accra Court Fines Three for Open Defecation and Illegal Waste Dumping
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (298+ words) The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) Sanitation Court has convicted three people for sanitation offences in the latest round of prosecutions by the assembly, as authorities press ahead with enforcement action targeting open defecation and illegal refuse disposal across the capital....
Parliamentary Committee Discovers Zoomlion Has Operated Nine Additional Waste Containers Free for Over a Year in Cape Coast
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (522+ words) The Parliamentary Select Committee on Sanitation and Water Resources has uncovered what many stakeholders have described as a significant contribution by Zoomlion Ghana Limited to sanitation management in the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly, following revelations that the company has been…...
Parliamentary Select Committee Engages KEEA, Zoomlion and other Stakeholders on Sanitation Service Delivery at Komenda
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (532+ words) The engagement, held at Komenda on Friday, brought together officials from Zoomlion Ghana Limited, the Community Water and Sanitation Agency, Ghana Water Company Limited, the Environmental Protection Agency, and other stakeholders in the sanitation and water (WASH) value chain. Chairman…...
MP Partners Hospital To Tackle Blindness As Residents Receive Free Cataract Screening
5+ day, 48+ min ago (222+ words) More than 200 residents of Zenu in the Kpone Katamanso Constituency have benefited from a free cataract screening exercise aimed at restoring sight and reducing avoidable blindness in the community. The exercise identified individuals suffering from cataract-related visual impairment, who are…...
Mahama Targets No-Bed Syndrome with Burma Camp Emergency Centre Plan
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (270+ words) President John Dramani Mahama on Friday announced plans to convert the COVID-19-era emergency centre at Burma Camp into a dedicated facility for critical cases, as part of a wider push to address Ghana's persistent no-bed syndrome and reduce preventable…...
Global Bile Duct Cancer Conference Opens in Salt Lake City
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (313+ words) The Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation (CCF) opens its 13th Annual Conference on Friday, May 1, at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, bringing together researchers, clinicians, patients, caregivers, and advocates from around the world to advance the fight against bile…...
Health Data of 500, 000 Britons Found Listed for Sale on Alibaba
1+ week, 10+ hour ago (326+ words) The British government has launched an investigation after the health records of half a million United Kingdom citizens were found listed for sale on Chinese e-commerce platform Alibaba, in what authorities have described as an unacceptable abuse of research data....