President John Dramani Mahama has officially commissioned a state-of-the-art Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scan facility at the Sweden Ghana Medical Center in Accra, marking a major breakthrough for Ghana’s healthcare and oncology sector. The new facility is expected to significantly reduce the need for Ghanaians to travel abroad for advanced medical diagnostics and cancer-related treatment, a […]

Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, Ghana’s Minister for Health, has indicated that the government’s ambitious Agenda 111 initiative may face significant challenges in achieving full completion due to financial and logistical constraints. Speaking in an interview on Citi FM, the Minister outlined the difficulties confronting the current administration in advancing the large-scale healthcare infrastructure project initiated under […]

Nursing and midwifery education in Ghana is set for a major transformation, as training colleges prepare to award degree certificates and introduce specialised programmes, Health Minister Kwabena Mintah Akandoh has announced. Speaking at the inauguration of Advisory Boards for Health Training Institutions, the Minister said the reforms are aimed at producing highly skilled professionals who […]

Recent findings highlight the dangerous escalation of extremist violence along the fragile border corridors linking Niger, Benin, and Nigeria — a region increasingly viewed as West Africa’s next major security flashpoint. Security analysts warn that the tri-border area is fast becoming a new epicenter of jihadist expansion, driven by porous borders, weak state presence, and shifting […]

Deputy Minister of Health, Grace Ayensu-Danquah, has unveiled a comprehensive strategy to tackle the country’s long-standing “no-bed syndrome” — a systemic breakdown in emergency care where critically ill patients are turned away from hospitals due to reported lack of space. Rather than focusing solely on increasing physical bed numbers, the Ministry’s plan combines digital integration, […]