Day: October 24, 2022

Accra, Oct. 24, GNA – A Mother and son have been granted bail by an Accra Circuit Court for fraudulent transaction and causing unlawful damage.

The accused persons; Elizabeth Acquah, a 55-year-old woman and John Prince Danso, a 31-year-old, are both unemployed.

They pleaded not guilty to the charges levelled against them.

The Court presided over by Mrs Afia Owusuaa Appiah granted Elizabeth bail in the sum of GHS 50,000.00 with two sureties to be justified, while John Danso was also granted GHS30,000.00 bail with two sureties to be justified.

The case has been adjourned to November 29, 2022.

Police Inspector Wisdom Alorwu, prosecutor of the case, told the Court that the complainant, Mr Victor Essel, is a development Officer and resided at Teshie.

Inspector Alorwu said in 2021, Elizabeth sold a piece of land located at Spintex road area to the complainant at the cost of GHS 170,000.

The prosecution said the complainant after making full payment started constructing a fence wall around the land and on February 2, 2022, the complainant visited the land and found out that Danso had damaged the fence wall value at GHS 10,000.

The prosecution said the complainant after further investigations realised  that the said land belonged to Elizabeth’s husband, who was separated from her for 22 years and all the land documents were still in his name.

Inspector Alorwu said the complainant contacted the husband for his consent, but he refused, and this made it difficult for the complainant to develop the land.

The prosecution said the complainant then demanded a refund from Elizabeth, but she could not do that.

Inspector Alorwu said the complainant then lodged a case against the accused persons who were subsequently arrested.

The prosecution said during investigations, Elizabeth claimed she contributed to the purchase of the land and that she used the proceeds to educate one of her sons in school.

Inspector Alorwu said Danso also claimed his father had given him power of attorney over the land.

 

Source: Ghana News Agency

Bolgatanga, Oct. 24, GNA – The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA), has cautioned trainee nurses to desist from wearing their uniforms to attend political rallies and activities.

The Association’s Upper East Regional Chairman, Mr Thomas Lambon, who gave the caution, expressed concern that some student nurses were seen in uniform at political programmes, an act he said was unhealthy to the nursing profession.

According to him, “Once some members of the public see you in the uniform, they conclude you are a nurse, meanwhile you are still under training that is why the GRNMA is very concerned.”

Mr Lambon was speaking at the matriculation ceremony of first- and second-year trainee nurses of the Nursing Training College (NTC), Bolgatanga.

He said the Association was not against its members, nursing and midwifery trainee’s involvement in politics, but indicated that the uniform must not be worn for political activities.

He said the nature of the nursing and midwifery profession enjoined them to render care to every member of the public without any form of discrimination and must not be seen in uniform engaged in political activities.

“At least everyone has a Party they support, and the Association is not against that, but we do not want to see you in uniform at political programmes.

“If the politicians visit your school that is fine, because you are in school but we do not support the use of the uniform for political activities outside your campus,” he emphasized.

The Association’s Chair called on all Principals of Nursing Training Colleges to ensure that the nursing uniform was not used for political activities outside their campuses.

He urged the matriculants to concentrate on their studies and not rely on stakeholders, especially Chiefs and politicians, to intervene on their behalf if they failed to meet the required marks to be registered for their licencing examination.

The GRNMA Chairman said the Association was concerned about their training, and would continue to encourage them to learn, as that was the only way they could graduate successfully as professional nurses.

“Learn and pass well, so that you will be registered to write your final examination and pass out as a professional nurse and join the GRNMA, which is the mother Association for nurses and midwives in Ghana,” he said.

 

Source: Ghana News Agency

Accra, Oct. 24, GNA – The Bank Hospital says its Ambulance Service is available for the coordination and provision of emergency medical care and transportation of sick or injured persons who need immediate medical care.
A statement issued in Accra said, “we provide an efficient treatment by presenting conditions and timely transport of patients to the point of definitive care, most likely an emergency department of a hospital or health facilities.”

It said the Bank Hospital provided world-class advanced life support ambulances equipped with Intensive Care Unit medical equipment such as professionally trained Paramedics, who were committed to meeting them at the point of their need.

“We give you quality pre-hospital emergency health care and health transport to appropriate health facility for further management,” it added.

The Bank hospital’s ambulance services include Inter-hospital patient transfer, pre-hospital emergency care to accident victims (road traffic, Domestic, Industrial and Medical).

Others are transporting accident victims from the scene of an accident to an appropriate health facility, transporting patients for diagnostic studies (X-ray, MRI, CT- Scan and Laboratory Studies).

It said there is a standby emergency cover at mass public meetings and gatherings with health transport for patients discharged from the hospital to their residence.

Kindly call our ambulance service on 0599211311 anytime you need an ambulance.

It said when calling their emergency number, the public should make sure that they have the following information including specific details about the location (address) of the incident or potential patient (Provide landmarks).

It said they should also have specific details of the incident, speak clearly and calmly to the person taking their call.

Specific details about the contact person (name and telephone number) and make sure that the telephone line was available until the ambulance arrives at the scene.

 

Source: Ghana News Agency

 

Tanokrom (WR), Oct. 24, GNA – Ms Chelsy Sey, a broadcast journalist with the Global Media Alliance, has organized a breast cancer screening and awareness creation exercise dubbed, “Boobs Up Campaign” for market women at the Jubilee Market in Takoradi.

The “Boobs Up Campaign” initiative under the Boss Up 100 Foundation, was aimed at sensitizing women on the need to get screened for both breast and cervical cancer which were the most common cancers in women.

Ms Chelsy Sey in an interview, noted that though a lot of sensitizations had gone on, many women in the informal sector especially, market women found it difficult to move to the health facilities to get screened, hence the need to take the project to them.

She explained that the highest cause of premature mortality among women in the world was breast and cervical cancer making both cancers a major health problem for women.

According to her, when diagnosed early, both breast and cervical cancer could be successfully treated and managed effectively.

“There is a risk that every woman will develop breast and cervical cancer. Various risk factors can affect the susceptibility of each woman,” she stated.

She mentioned that early menarche, late menopause, late childbirth, oral contraceptives, and hormonal therapy for menopause as well as high alcohol intake increased the risk of breast cancer.

Ms Sey explained that research added that the impact of diet and environmental factors were some probable causes of the disease and stated that frequent participation in screening services was a major intervention for the prompt and appropriate management of women with abnormalities.

The free screening exercise, which was organized in collaboration with Nana Care Solutions, screened more than 100 women of which some were referred to health facilities for check-ups.

 

 

Source: Ghana News Agency

Accra, Oct.24, GNA – A team led by Dr Michael K. Obeng, a world-renowned plastic surgeon of the RESTORE Worldwide, Inc, the Foundation for Reconstructive Surgery, has conducted free reconstructive surgery for 200 patients in the Volta region.

The Surgeons conducted 135 surgical operations, dental tooth extractions, and chiropractic skeletal manipulations within four and a half working days.

The 33-member team of volunteers comprised a dentist and chiropractor, seven surgeons, an internist, a general practitioner, two anesthesiologists, a nurse anesthetist, a physician assistant, two surgical nurses, three surgical technologists, and four registered nurses.

The team prior to the surgery screened more than 500 patients from across the country.

A statement from RESTORE Worldwide copied to the Ghana News Agency, said the team from different backgrounds met in Ghana from the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Mali, Senegal, and Ghana.

Dr John Tampuori, the Chief Executive Officer, Ho Teaching Hospital and an Urologist said: “When the RESTORE team told me about their lofty target of 120 surgeries, I was a bit skeptical, but they have done what ‘God’ can do.”

Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Member of Parliament for the North Tongu Constituency, expressed gratitude to the team when he witnessed at first-hand, the lives that were transformed.

“I will make sure the RESTORE team comes to this area every single year whether I am in government or not. I will like to see my people happy.

“I am delighted that a good number of our compatriots outside the Volta Region also benefited. We are eternally indebted to Dr. Obeng and the RESTORE team,” he added.

Dr Obeng said: “I know we can do better as a country. Ghana has some of the most brilliant minds and most of our natural resources are untapped. There is a great amount of wealth in this country and our people should have better access to health. Health is wealth and a healthy nation is a wealthy nation.”

The statement noted that there were a preponderance of thyroid-related diseases (goiters), gigantic facial tumors, burn scar deformities causing functional impairment as well as unprecedented number of ambiguous genitalia, which carried with it social stigmatisation that had prompted most of the subsets of patients contemplating suicide.

On Wednesday, October 12, the team successfully conducted the first gender re-affirmation surgery, the first of its kind in the Region on a 19-year true intersex (hermaphrodite) who had been living as a girl since birth.

Another major procedure executed by the team was a hemi-maxillectomy, followed by Reconstruction on an elderly woman with a tumor engulfing half of her face.

The team, according to the statement, successfully removed a tumor from an 11-year-old boy that wrapped around cranial nerves 11 & 12 and the common carotid artery at its bifurcation, a surgery that had been attempted twice by local surgeons, but with futility because of the vital structures mentioned above.

Dr Paa Ekow Hoyte-Williams of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and Director of Medical Affairs for the RESTORE team, expressed satisfaction with the success chalked by the mission and the safety measures it had implemented to prevent catastrophes.  “All these were life-transforming surgeries, and it is an amazing initiative because all these have been done at no cost to the patients,” he said.

This mission also saw a large number of German volunteers led by Dr. Mehmet Atila of Medical Inn in Düsseldorf, Germany.

The team conducted 111 surgeries in Dakar, Senegal in December 2021 and was expected to perform the next exercise in Cameroon in February 2023.

The trip included a group of surgeons like Colonel Dr Raccine Kane, Professor, and Head of Urology of L’Hopital de Dakar, Senegal, Dr Dembele, Chief of Plastic Surgery in Mali dubbed by the team ‘The Machine’ for his surgical prowess, and Dr Marco from Germany.

 

 

Source: Ghana News Agency