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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
Minister for Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Ahmed Ibrahim, has revealed that in the whole of 2024, only GHS 362 million was released to MMDAs in Common Fund.
Contrary to this, In 2025 alone GHS 5 billion was released to the MMDAs with the following breakdown as follows.
The Minister made this revelation when he took his turn at the Government Accountability Series held today.
In breakdown, the minister nonted that 1st Quarter – 790,372,058.40 was released for 2025.
He added that for the 2nd Quarter, 1,464,983,309.60 was released.
3rd Quarter saw the release of 1,188,921,640.80 and
1,592,706,391.20 for 4th Quarter.
The Minister added tha each of the MMDAs were required to undertake the following; at least 2-CHPS compounds, 3 Classroom blocks, 10 Boreholes, and Completion of legacy projects.
Additionally, 25% of the Common Fund was allocated for the Construction of 24-Hour Economy Model Markets.
Ahmed Ibrahim noted that as a result of the timely and unprecedented release of Funds, a total of 494 CHPS compounds, 761 Classroom Blocks, 4,029 Boreholes, and 2,755 Legacy projects are currently at various stages of completion.
Also, he added that 261 24-Hour Economy Model Markets have all been awarded on contracts and construction has begun on many of them.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Christian Tetteh Yohuno, together with members of the Police Management Board (POMAB), on April 17, 2026, decorated nineteen (19) senior officers who have been promoted to their next ranks based on the recommendations of the Police Council and approval of the President, John Dramani Mahama.
The ceremony, held at the National Police Headquarters in Accra, forms part of efforts to recognise merit, dedication, and long-standing service within the Ghana Police Service, while strengthening leadership across key operational and administrative levels.
The officers promoted from Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) to Commissioner of Police (COP) are Dr. Luke Asue-In-Yeng Zakpaa, Mr. Frederick Agyei, Mr. Duuti Tuaruka, Mr. Arthur Osei-Akoto, Mr. Darko Offei Lomotey, Mr. Eric Ken Winful, Mr. Barnabas Nambont Nasumong, and Mr. Desmond Owusu Boampong.
The IGP and members of POMAB congratulated the officers and urged them to uphold the highest standards of professionalism and integrity in the discharge of their duties.
