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Flokefama, Mindray train hospital engineers in West Africa
Flokefama
A leading medical equipment solutions company, Flokefama, together with its international partner, Mindray, have held a week-long training conference for West African hospital engineers.
The conference which started on Monday, August 12, is aimed at ensuring quality after sales service of all In Vitro diagnostic equipment at the various hospitals.
It would also aid Ghanaian biomedical engineers to ensure that Flokefama and Mindray equipment installations in facilities like the University of Ghana Medical Centre, The Trust Hospital and the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, among others were catered for.
In his opening address, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Flokefama, Mr Emmanuel Kwabena Kenney, said the training of these technicians who operate such equipment was crucial to saving lives and ensuring standardisation.
For this reason he said, any time there were challenges they had to fly in engineers from Kenya, Ethiopia, China and the United States of America to fix them.
“What we have done is to bridge the gap. We have brought these engineers to train our local engineers. What we have is the Flokefama/Mindray West African Engineers training with participants from Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, and Cote d’Ivoire among others. We are hosting them at our IBD Training Centre at Kwashieman/Santa Maria,” he said.
Mr Kenney said that locally, engineers from these hospitals would be trained “so that when these equipment have a challenges, or the standardisation are not being met, or it’s producing false results they will know what to do.”
On maintenance culture, he said, managing and taking care of various equipment was the most important, and therefore called on leadership of the various hospitals to prioritise it.
He further revealed that the training would be rolled out across the major regions and against this backdrop, urged hospitals, both public and private to get in touch and take advantage.
Mr Kenney disclosed that at the end of the training, certificates would be awarded by Flokefama and Mindray.
He was optimistic that training from the crack team from Ethiopia, Kenya and China will go a long way to further impact the local technicians.
Some of the participants expressed their appreciation for the training and recommended that other facilities take advantage of the opportunity to train their engineers.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
The Diaspora Affairs Office at the Office of the President has hosted a delegation of African diaspora women who are in Ghana ahead of a planned Presidential Conferment of Citizenship ceremony.
The Director of Diaspora Affairs, Kofi Okyere Darko, explained in a Facebook post that the visit was a gesture of appreciation by the delegation to the Government of Ghana for its continued efforts to reconnect Africans in the diaspora with their ancestral homeland.
He indicated that the ceremony, scheduled for next Monday, will officially grant Ghanaian citizenship to members of the delegation as part of the country’s broader engagement with the African diaspora.
The delegation was led by Erica Bennett, Founder of the Diaspora Africa Forum.
According to Mr Okyere Darko, her years of advocacy have played an important role in strengthening ties between Africa and people of African descent living abroad.
He noted that the group’s journey towards citizenship represents not only a legal process but also a cultural and spiritual return to their roots.
Also present at the meeting was Natalie Jackson, an attorney who is also expected to receive Ghanaian citizenship during the ceremony. She works closely with renowned civil rights lawyer Ben Crump.
Mr Okyere Darko emphasised that Ghana remains committed to strengthening relationships with the African diaspora and promoting unity, identity, and shared heritage among people of African descent worldwide.
By: Jacob Aggrey
Ghana has signed a debt restructuring agreement with the Kingdom of Belgium as part of efforts to restore the country’s economic stability after the financial crisis that hit the nation in 2022 and 2023.
The Minister of Finance, Cassiel Ato Forson, today disclosed that he signed the agreement on behalf of the Government of Ghana.
He explained that Ghana experienced a very difficult period during the crisis, which forced the government at the time to declare a debt default.
However, he indicated that the country is now recovering and witnessing a significant economic turnaround.
According to him, stronger systems are also being put in place to ensure that Ghana does not return to such a situation again.
Dr Forson noted that the agreement with Belgium is the eighth deal Ghana has concluded with countries under the Official Creditor Committee as part of its external debt restructuring programme.
He expressed appreciation to the Government of Belgium for its support and partnership with Ghana during the process.
The Finance Minister thanked Carole van Eyll, Ambassador of Belgium to Ghana, for her role in strengthening relations between the two countries.
The agreement forms part of Ghana’s broader effort to restructure its external debts and stabilise the economy following the crisis.
By: Jacob Aggrey
