A/Region: Turnout for Johnson & Johnson vaccine impressive – GHS

The Ashanti Regional Directorate of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) is impressed by the massive turnout for vaccination in two of the region’s districts, Kwadaso and Kumasi Metro, where the exercise commenced with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The Deputy Regional Director, Dr. Michael Rockson Adeii in an interview on Eyewitness …

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Deployment of single dose vaccines expected Monday

The deployment of the 177,600 Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose schedule vaccines is expected to begin latest by Monday, the Manager of the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) at the Ghana Health Service, Dr Kwame Amponsa-Achiano, has disclosed. He told the Daily Graphic in Accra yesterday that the vaccines were targeted …

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Ghana’s Anti-LGBTQI draft bill a ‘recipe for violence’ – UN experts

United Nations human rights experts are urging the government of Ghana to reject the anti-LGBTQI draft bill currently being reviewed by Parliament’s Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs committee. The 13-member experts said the bill intends to establish a state-sponsored discrimination and violence against LGBTQI people. “The draft legislation argues that …

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Audit Service to construct 19 regional, district offices

The Ghana Audit Service has secured parliamentary approval to construct 16 district offices and three regional offices at the cost of €13 million. After the award of contracts, the projects are expected to be completed in nine months. The Ag. Auditor-General, Mr Johnson Akuamoah-Asiedu, who disclosed this to the Daily …

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