How not to handle Ebola CNN September 12, 2014 -- Updated 2218 GMT (0618 HKT) | Editor's note: Joe Amon is the director of the health and human rights division at Human Rights Watch. The views expressed are the writer's own. | (CNN) -- What turns a few cases of disease into thousands? | Sometimes Ebola, or cholera or other inf...
Anger rises in Kashmir as people remain trapped after floods The State SRINAGAR, INDIA — Many of the hungry who lined up for free rice Saturday had been trapped in their homes for days by the floods that have killed hundreds in India and Pakistan. They were finally emerging, dehydrated and weak, but ready for a fi...
How not to handle Ebola CNN September 12, 2014 -- Updated 2218 GMT (0618 HKT) | Editor's note: Joe Amon is the director of the health and human rights division at Human Rights Watch. The views expressed are the writer's own. | (CNN) -- What turns a few cases of disease into tho...
GMA Prez: We Should Stop Ruling Ghana With Party Manifesto…In Dealing With Cholera Peace FM Online President of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) Dr. Kwabena Opoku-Adusei has attributed the state's inability to deal with the recent cholera outbreak and many other preventable diseases to the use of political party's manifesto to govern instead of...
Carvajal: Floodwater Sun Star WATER exists to sustain life. It is only because of man’s misuse or abuse that there is water that kills. | There is, for instance, polluted and contaminated water that is killing people through diseases like cholera or through toxic chemicals like...
Delay Of Common Fund Stalling Project Execution- MCE Peace FM Online The Ho Municipal Assembly is yet to receive any District Assembly Common Fund (DACF) allocation for the 2014 financial year, Mrs Fafa Adinyira, Municipal Chief Executive of the Assembly, said on Friday. | She said the Assembly received As GH¢92,371.6...
Maamobi Hospital Appeals For Ambulance Peace FM Online Dr Mildred Kumassah, Medical Director of the Maamobi Hospital, has appealed to the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) to provide them with an ambulance for effective healthcare delivery. | She said the facility was formally a Polyclinic, which has bee...
Minority Unhappy With Government’s Response To Cholera Outbreak Peace FM Online The Minority New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Thursday called on the Government urgently release funds to state organisations concerned with health, to stem the tide of the recent outbreak of cholera. | “Mr President, it is said that “a stitch in time sa...
Creative Arts: Ghana is Not Serious Peace FM Online Controversial rapper Wanlov the Kubolor says Ghana as a country has never been serious about the creative arts industry; but has rather been interested in the money the industry generates. | According to Wanlov, successive governments have never been...
Pakistani troops expand rescue in flood-hit areas Detroit news ZARAR KHAN and ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press Comments | Kashmiri residents wade through floodwaters in central Srinagar on Sept. 12, 2014. The main city in Indian Kashmir has 'drowned completely' under floodwaters, a senior official said, with the de...
Local Gov’t Ministry To Deal With Cholera Next Year Peace FM Online The Local Government Ministry is considering a comprehensive plan to stop the cholera outbreak in parts of the country especially Accra, in the coming years. | According to Deputy Minister, Emmanuel Kwadwo Agyekum, serious education campaigns with ce...
NPP Plays Cholera Politics Peace FM Online The cholera outbreak currently facing the country is likely not to end anytime soon as the Minority Caucus in Parliament has stated that as at 2010, almost 97 percent of all public-owned and publicly managed sewage and faecal sewage treatment plants ...
