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Great Ningo Paramount Queen donates PPE to CHPS compounds
• Naana Dugbakuwor Dugba II (3rd left) presenting the items to Madam Sylvia Arde-Acquah
The Paramount Queen mother of Great Ningo Traditional Area, Naana Dugbakuwor Dugba II has donated assorted Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) Compound in the entire traditional area.
The gesture, according to her, was to help healthcare workers in all the CHPS compound execute their services without PPE.
Considering Great Ningo Traditional Area a developing community, the Paramount Queen mother appealed to the Ministry of Health and stakeholders in the health sector not to forget the traditional area when distributing health projects that would benefit the inhabitants of Great Ningo.
She bemoaned how some healthcare workers abandoned the Traditional Area due to its low pace of development.
She called for more development projects in the area as a means of creating avenues for employment and generating revenue for the nation.
She observed that, the cooperation between the inhabitants and healthcare workers had been cordial and that was commendable.
Naana Dugbakuwor Dugba II commended the COVID-19 Trust Fund for giving out the PPE to promote healthcare delivery in the area.
She thanked Nene Tetteh Banahene III, Acting President of Ningo Traditional Council, the Chiefs and all Elders for their staunch support in making the Traditional Area get facelift through several interventions.
Madam Sylvia Arde-Acquah, Deputy Chief Nursing Officer of Ningo/Prampram District who received the PPE showered praises on the Paramount Queen mother for the intervention which she considered enormous and worthy.
“I will ensure the PPE donated to all the CHPS compound would be used for the intended purpose”, she assured.
By Alfred Nii Arday Ankrah
The Member of Parliament for Ofoase Ayirebi, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has disbursed GHS134,000 to 22 students under the latest round of his Scholarship and Bursaries Programme.
According to a statement from his office, the 22 beneficiaries are enrolled in 16 tertiary institutions across the country.
They are studying various courses, including medicine, marketing, law, public health, midwifery, business administration, education, and secretaryship.
The MP’s office commended the beneficiaries, especially the five students currently studying medicine and physician assistantship, encouraging them to remain committed to their studies.
The statement indicated that the scholarship initiative, which began in 2017, aims to support brilliant but needy students from the Ofoase Ayirebi Constituency to further their education. So far, about 700 students have benefited from the program.
By: Jacob Aggrey
Four tricycle operators, popularly known as ‘Pragya’, have been prosecuted and fined GH¢600 each equivalent to 50 penalty units by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) Sanitation Court for obstructing public roads at the Agbogbloshie Market.
The offenders, who were arrested by Public Health Officers of the AMA during a routine enforcement exercise, pleaded guilty to the offence and were subsequently convicted by the court.
The four operators were among the 21 offenders recently arrested at the Agbogbloshie Market for various sanitation and public order violations, including selling on open drains, obstructing walkways, and trading at unauthorised locations.
Speaking after the court proceedings, the Head of Public Health at the AMA, Madam Florence Kuukyi, said the court was lenient with the offenders since it was their first appearance, hence the fine, and warned that subsequent offenders would face stiffer penalties, including imprisonment.
