A woman has been arrested at the Madina Market for allegedly selling chemicals suspected of being used to accelerate the ripening of bananas and plantains. The arrest was made on Tuesday, August 19, during an operation conducted by a task force from the Madina-La Nkwantanang Municipal Assembly, together with personnel from the Madina Police and […]

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is now the deadliest in its history, according to public health officials. A total of 2,325 people have been killed by the virus since it was declared on 15 May, surpassing the death toll of the country’s 2018-2020 outbreak. The outbreak was already the fastest growing […]

For most families, childbirth is a moment of hope, joy and new beginnings. I believe that is exactly how God intended it to be. Yet for too many women in our dear country, pregnancy and childbirth remain dangerous journeys. Preventable complications continue to claim lives despite significant improvements in access to healthcare and antenatal services. […]

When Juliann Akwele McAddy ’25 joined the Ashesi Health & Care Initiative Incubator, she was already working on MamaMonitor, a prenatal monitoring device she had developed as part of her final-year capstone project. The idea behind MamaMonitor began with a question she could not shake ever since a close relative lost her first baby due to pregnancy complications.   […]

President John Dramani Mahama has announced plans to expand Ghana’s pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity, with the goal of reducing the country’s dependence on imported medicines.  He said the government received a five-year plan aimed at achieving greater self-sufficiency in the production of medicines for the domestic market and would create opportunities to export to neighbouring countries.  […]