Health Minister Hon. Kwabena Mintah Akandoh has commissioned Ghana’s first Public Health Operations Response Centre at Pantang, a major coordination hub established by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to bolster the country’s emergency preparedness and response capabilities. The facility, handed over to the Ghana Health Service through the Ministry of Health, is expected to significantly …

Lightwave E-Healthcare Solutions Limited has refuted what it describes as “false and misleading” allegations made by Minister of Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, concerning the management of Ghana’s National E-Healthcare Programme and the Lightwave Health Information Management System (LHIMS). In a statement issued in Accra, the fully Ghanaian-owned technology company said the Minister’s recent assertions—made in Parliament on October 28 and …

The Court of Appeal has overturned the conviction of the former Assembly Member for Denkyira Obuasi, William Baah, who had been serving a life sentence for allegedly abetting the murder of Major Maxwell Adam Mahama. A three-member panel, in a unanimous judgment, ruled that the trial judge, Justice Mariama Owusu—then a Justice of the Supreme Court sitting as a High …