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Student develops App to assist the blind detect currency

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Student develops App to assist the blind detect currency

A final year student at Bluecrest University College has developed an App that can help the blind detect currency in Ghana.

According to the student, Daniel David Lezu, he sees the need to help the society especially the physically challenged with the knowledge he has acquired in the university.

“Although we are moving into a cashless society, physical money will still be comprehensively used for standard trades and businesses but how will the visually impaired people do money transactions smoothly”? he quizzed.

As part of the Students final year project work, Lezu came about with the currency detector App for the visually impaired to help them learn and detect all set of Ghanaian currencies.

The application uses speech-to-text methodology. It pronounces the detected currency audible to the users. The App has a feature which can be used to make a call. The visually impaired can give a command by a speech by mentioning the contacts he/ she want to call. The interface of the App is very simple and it interacts with the user via audio.

This is a first-ever currency detector App for the visually impaired in Ghana and it will go a long way in shaping our society by developing more inclusive projects for the physically challenged people.

Eye health problems are high among the priority health needs of the people living in Ghana.

According to a recent Blindness and Visual Impairment Study, the prevalence of blindness in Ghana is 0.74% and 1.07% of the population has a severe visual impairment. A large proportion of those with low vision (88.9%) and blindness (67.7%) are due to avoidable causes. The SRC started supporting eye care services in Ghana in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MOH), Ghana Health Services (GHS) and Ghana Red Cross Society (GRCS) in 1991 expanding these services to the Upper West, the Brong-Ahafo and the Northern Region. It has offered outpatient department and community outreach attendance, school screenings and surgical operations and made a significant impact on the eye health of the ordinary citizen of the Northern part of Ghana, considered as one of the poorest.

The Application which is yet to be launched on Google Play Store has yielded a lot of accolades from some visually impaired people who have got the privilege to use the App in its testing period.

Daniel David Lezu, the student who developed the App wishes to add more features in the app. He lamented on the need for the App to sum up the detected currency and also detected counterfeit money. All these ideas are the future scope of the project which can be possible if he gets grants and supports from the Governments and other stakeholders in the country.

Professor Edmund Akpor Mensah, the supervisor of the App, urged students to be innovative in their respective fields and think outside the box.

He said the currency detector App is just what the blind community needed.

In his view, they have been neglected for far too long and it was about time innovative minds develop contents to make their living much easier.

GNAT demands independent investigation into leaked WASSCE papers

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GNAT demands independent investigation into leaked WASSCE papers

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), has called for an independent committee to investigate the leaked WASSCE papers, instead of its cancellation.

Speaking on GBC’s ‘Behind the News’, General Secretary of the Association, Thomas Musah said WAEC has lost its credibility and supports calls for a new body to break the monopoly of WAEC.

“First, there is an issue, the issue must first and foremost be investigated and then the outcome of the investigations will bring the matter to finality. If you have an independent body to investigate this thing, the subsequent recommendation will tell us the way to go. But when you have different bodies proffering solutions, it will be very difficult as people to find a solution to the problem, which is leakage of the exam.”

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On Sunday, August 16, the Core Mathematics paper scheduled for Monday, August 17, was seen circulating on social media with worked-out answers.

Although some people thought it was fake, it turned out to be genuine as the very questions were contained in the paper written on Monday.

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You’re going too far, enough! – Tracey Boakye turns heat on Captain Smart over ‘papa no’ video

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You’re going too far, enough! – Tracey Boakye turns heat on Captain Smart over ‘papa no’ video

Actress and movie producer Tracey Boakye is displeased about some comments Captain Smart made on his radio show and has asked the Angel FM morning show host to refrain from tarnishing her image or face her wrath.

Captain Smart had claimed he has a copy of the video clip Kennedy Agyapong threatened to broadcast if Tracey Boakye refuses to stop blackmailing former president John Dramani Mahama.

“Ken has a video of what transpired at East Legon because I have it. Ken also has a video of what transpired in a car. That video was shot by the driver of one of the men,” said Captain Smart.

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“The driver knew a lady was about to enter the car so he strategically placed his phone in the car before stepping out. So it was the driver who first leaked the video; he leaked it to senior slay queen A.A.”

Captain Smart further said the man at the centre of the controversy is not a politician hence, cannot be the former president.

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“JM is not too dark,” the radio presenter said. “‘Papa no’ is too dark. There are several men involved and this is traced to a fight that ensued at East Legon. Everything happened at a spot.”

According to Captain Smart, Tracey Boakye is part of a group of ladies who planned to have houses before they clock certain ages.

Chronicling what he claims sparked the friction, Captain Smart said: “One of them was able to achieve this [referring to the house task]; Tracey was next to have a house. Another started building hers but was hit with a challenge so the work stalled. That was how the confusion started. It was more like ‘let me look for Nana Yaa Brefo’s boyfriend and snatch him’. That is the beginning of the conflict. Kennedy Agyapong knows everything.”

In a sharp rebuttal, an infuriated Tracey Boakye sent a word of caution to the broadcaster. With a red headgear and a straight dress, the actress, seated in the confines of her room asked Captain Smart to not spread falsehood about her.

She denied ever being a member of a group of ladies as trumpeted by the radio personality.

“I beg you, I’m not part of any group of ladies. Don’t play with the minds of Ghanaians,” she unequivocally retorted. “There is no such video; I’ve dared whoever has any video of a supposed encounter to release it. Why do you lie about me. I beg you, keep my name out of your mouth.”

“Wouldn’t you have had a topic to discuss on your show if this brouhaha hadn’t emerged? I’ve been watching your commentaries but you went a bit far this morning. I have dared you; if you have any video release it. I’m tired… Stop it! If you offend me, I’ll clap back at you,” a visibly angry Tracey Boakye remarked.

Tracey Boakye, an actress cum film producer, launched a verbal attack on musician Mzbel over their relationship with an unknown married man, which the former has allegedly benefited from.

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Speculations were rife that the ‘Papa No’, Akan meaning “the man” at the centre of the controversy was a former president but Mzbel in an interview over the weekend stated that her preference cannot be the same as Tracey’s.

“Honestly, I have no idea the kind of man Tracey Boakye is talking about,” Mzbel said in an interview with Graphic Showbiz. “The men I date are not her type and I wonder why she would say she has snatched my boyfriend from me.”

“My man likes slim ladies and she is not slim. If she claims she has taken over my boyfriend who provides everything for her why is she still not okay but is saying things that I have no idea about?” a puzzled Mzbel asked.

Recently, Kennedy Agyapong, a Member of Parliament alleged that Mr Mahama, bought for Tracey Boakye her East Legon house worth $450,000.

He further claimed that Tracey has sent some naked videos of the former president to a journalist who himself isn’t clean. He threatened to expose the journalist should the latter decide to broadcast the videos sent to him.

Allotey Jacobs ‘betrays’ NDC,joins Nana Addo at the commissioning of Ekumfi Fruits Factory

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Allotey Jacobs ‘betrays’ NDC,joins Nana Addo at the commissioning of Ekumfi Fruits Factory

Embattled former Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress(NDC), Allotey Jacobs was on Friday, August 21, 2020, spotted at the commissioning Eku Juice factory.

On Friday, 21st August 2020, the President commissioned the Ekumfi Fruits and Juices Factory, an initiative of Government’s 1-District-1-Factory programme.

The $15 million factory is the first factory ever to be established in Ekumfi and has created some 1,550 direct and indirect jobs.

The Ekumfi Fruits and Juices Factory has been well-planned and well-thought-through, with the raw materials needed for the successful operation of this project already present, and an out-grower scheme in place.

At the event to Commission the much-touted Ekumfi Juice Factory, the embattled Allotey Jacobs was seen in a pose with the President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

Allotey Jacobs is currently suspended by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for engaging in what the party says is against its constitution but was spotted at the event which has left many tongues wagging.

Many NDC members have described him as a traitor who prior to his suspension was mortgaging the fortunes of the party for a pittance from the governing New Patriotic Party(NPP)

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The John Evans Atta Mills proponent has said that he will actively join the NDC in 2021 when the founder has taken over his political party but for now, prefers to be a social commentator

General Election: EC can’t implement ROPAA in 2020

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General Election: EC can’t implement ROPAA in 2020

THE Electoral Commission (EC) says it cannot implement the Representation of the People Amendment Act (ROPAA), 2006 (Act 699) for this year’s general election.

Following the passage of the law, Ghanaians in the Diaspora had eagerly been waiting to, for the first time, vote in a general election in their places of residence, but for now, all their hopes have been dashed.

According to the EC, Parliament was yet to act on the Constitutional Instrument (CI) that will spell out the modalities and guidelines to implement ROPAA which the EC submitted in June this year.

The Deputy Commissioner of the EC in charge of Corporate Services, Dr Bossman Eric Asare, explained to the Daily Graphic in an interview yesterday that the CI would provide the framework and modalities on how Ghanaians abroad could register as voters and also vote.

He said the EC had done its part by submitting the CI to Parliament and that the onus was on the legislative body to act.

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COVID-19

However, sources at the EC have told the Daily Graphic that considering the challenges brought about by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, it was not feasible to implement ROPAA for the 2020 general election.

Sources in some political parties have also informed the Daily Graphic that the EC had been engaging them on the implementation of ROPAA and that the parties have also voiced out their concerns about its implementation this year.

ROPAA

Article 42 of the 1992 Constitution states: “Every citizen of Ghana of 18 years of age or above and of sound mind has the right to vote and be registered as a voter for the purposes of public elections and referenda.”

However, the Representation of the People Law, 1992 (PNDCL 284), the law that operationalised the constitutional provision as stipulated in Article 42, did not allow Ghanaians living abroad to register and also vote from their locations, even though Article 42 does not state that only Ghanaians in Ghana could enjoy that right.

Parliament, in 2006, therefore, passed ROPAA (Act 699) as an amendment to PNDCL 284 to cure that defect.

However, its implementation was not carried through by the EC.

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Suit

In 2017, five Ghanaians domiciled in the United States of America (USA) dragged the EC to court with a case that the electoral management body had “gone to sleep” and refused to implement Act 699, 11 years after it was passed.

Dr Kofi A. Boateng, Ms Nellie Kemevor, Mr Obed Danquah, Mr Christiana Sillim and Mr Agyenim Boateng, therefore, urged the Human Rights Division of the Accra High Court to order the EC to implement ROPAA, as the refusal of the EC to implement it was a violation of their constitutional rights to vote, as stipulated under Article 42 of the 1992 Constitution.

On December 17, 2017, the court, presided over by Justice Anthony Yeboah, upheld the case of the five Ghanaians and gave the EC a one-year ultimatum to operationalise ROPAA.

In the event that the EC had any justifiable reason(s) and was “unable to comply with the order”, the court ordered the commission to publish the justifiable reason(s) 30 days before the expiration of the deadline and also appear before the court to explain the reason(s).

Failure by the EC to implement ROPAA, the court held, was a violation of the fundamental human rights of Ghanaians in the Diaspora, whose right to vote had been guaranteed by the 1992 Constitution, which was made effective by ROPAA.

It was the view of the court that the EC was deliberately dragging its feet and had made its mind not to implement Act 699 any time soon.

Contempt

Two years after the landmark judgement, the five Ghanaians went back to court, this time around seeking to have the commissioners of the EC committed for contempt on the basis that the EC had still refused to implement ROPAA even after being ordered by the court.

According to the five applicants, the only way to ensure that the EC complied with the court’s orders was for the commissioners to be “committed to prison for contempt”.

The Chairperson of the EC, Mrs Jean Mensa, however, refuted claims by the five applicants that she and the EC had acted contemptuously.

In her affidavit in opposition, she contended that she was not the Chairperson of the EC at the time the court gave the order in December 2017, and that since her appointment, she had taken steps to implement the orders of the court.

The EC also filed an application for extension of time to enable it to implement ROPAA.

In May last year, the court, presided over by Justice Nicholas Abodakpi, granted the application and gave the EC one more year to implement ROPAA.

The court held that despite evidence showing that the EC had failed in the past to prioritise the implementation of the law, there appeared to be renewed commitment on the part of the new commissioners.

ROPAA engagement

After the ruling by the court, the EC embarked on a series of engagements with stakeholders on how to effectively implement ROPAA.

As part of the engagements, a delegation, led by Dr Asare, travelled to the USA and other countries to interact with Ghanaians in the Diaspora on how best to implement ROPAA,

The EC also held discussions with political parties, civil society organisations and other stakeholders.

It was after those engagements that the EC submitted the CI on ROPAA to Parliament.

 

Mahama challenges Prez Akufo-Addo to infrastructure debate (AUDIO)

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Mahama challenges Prez Akufo-Addo to infrastructure debate (AUDIO)

The Flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Former President John Dramani Mahama has challenged President Akufo-Addo to a debate on the records of their respective governments in the area of infrastructure.

Mr Mahama’s challenge comes days after Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia said the Akufo-Addo government has constructed more infrastructure projects (17,000) in less than four years than the NDC had managed in eight years.

Addressing residents of the Ketu-South District as part of a four-day tour of the Volta Region yesterday, Mr Mahama said a debate would bring a conclusion to the matter.

Listen to the audio below;

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Mr Mahama said: “In 2016, when I was talking about the value of infrastructure, friends on the other side said we don’t eat infrastructure, we don’t eat roads. That was what they said.

“Today, I can see a scramble to grab even KVIPs and any infrastructure and tout it as an achievement. But it is easy to settle the issue of infrastructure. After all, the President says this election is going to be an election of track records, comparing his track record to my track record.

“We can settle it easily, lets have a debate between two of us, the two Presidents. Let Nana Akufo-Addo come and sit down, let me sit down and let’s debate our records. I am willing to present myself for debate, any day, anytime, anywhere and we will settle the matter once and for all”.

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Background

During his presentation of the Akufo-Addo government’s infrastructure record last Tuesday, Dr Bawumia revealed what he said were staggering disparities in the value of similar projects undertaken by the erstwhile John Mahama government and current projects by the Akufo-Addo government.

According to Dr Bawumia, the cost of projects undertaken by the Mahama government, on a comparative value for money analysis, appear to be quite outrageous.

For instance, the Vice President said while the NPP government is constructing four major interchanges; Tema, Pokuase, Tamale and Obetsebi Lamptey interchanges at a cost of $289m, the Mahama administration built the Kwame Nkrumah interchange alone at a cost of $260m.

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For the Pokuase interchange, which he said is 75% complete, Dr Bawumia explained that the loan agreement for the project was signed in November 2016 for a three-tier interchange, but the Akufo-Addo government renegotiated for a four-tier interchange without any increase in cost.

Russia’s Opposition Leader poisoned

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Russia’s Opposition Leader poisoned

Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny is unconscious in hospital suffering from suspected poisoning, his spokeswoman has said.

The anti-corruption campaigner fell ill during a flight and the plane made an emergency landing in Omsk, where doctors said he was in a coma and they were trying to save his life.

His team suspects something was put in his tea at an airport cafe.

The Kremlin said that it wished Mr Navalny a “speedy recovery”.

Mr Navalny, 44, has for years been among President Vladimir Putin’s staunchest critics.

In June, he described a vote on constitutional reforms as a “coup” and a “violation of the constitution”. The reforms allow Mr Putin to serve another two terms in office, after the four terms he has already had.

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said he was “deeply concerned” by the reports Mr Navalny had been poisoned and sent his thoughts to him and his family.

What has the spokeswoman said?

Kira Yarmysh, the press secretary for the Anti-Corruption Foundation, which Mr Navalny founded in 2011, tweeted: “This morning Navalny was returning to Moscow from Tomsk.

“During the flight, he felt ill. The plane made an urgent landing in Omsk. Alexei has toxic poisoning.”

She added: “We suspect that Alexei was poisoned by something mixed into [his] tea. It was the only thing he drank since morning.

“Doctors are saying that the toxic agent absorbed faster through the hot liquid. Right now Alexei is unconscious.”

Ms Yarmysh said later that Mr Navalny was on a ventilator and in a coma, and that the hospital was now full of police officers. All of his belongings were being confiscated, she added.

She also said that doctors were initially ready to share any information but then they later claimed the toxicology tests had been delayed and were “clearly playing for time, and not saying what they know”.

Diagnosis would be “towards evening”, she was told.

Both Mr Navalny’s wife, Yulia Navalnaya, and doctor, Anastasia Vasilyeva, have arrived at the hospital.

Mrs Navalnaya was initially denied access to her husband because authorities said the patient had not agreed to the visit, Ms Yarmysh said, although she was later allowed on to the ward.

Dr Vasilyeva said they were seeking to transfer the opposition leader to a specialist poison control centre in Europe, but hospital doctors were refusing to provide records of his condition.

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What are the other reports from the scene?

The Tass news agency quoted one source at the Omsk Emergency Hospital as saying: “Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny, born in 1976. Poisoning intensive care.”

However, the deputy head physician of the hospital later told media that it was not certain Mr Navalny had been poisoned, although poisoning was “naturally” one of the diagnoses being considered.

Anatoly Kalinichenko said that doctors were “genuinely trying to save [Mr Navalny’s] life”.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov later said it wished the critic a speedy recovery – as it would all citizens in such circumstances – and that the authorities would consider approving treatment abroad if it were requested.

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Video footage on social media shows Mr Navalny being taken on a stretcher to an ambulance on the airport runway.

Another disturbing video appears to show a stricken Mr Navalny in pain on the flight.

Passenger Pavel Lebedev said: “At the start of the flight he went to the toilet and didn’t come back. He started feeling really sick. They struggled to bring him round and he was screaming in pain.”

Another photograph on social media purports to show Mr Navalny drinking from a cup at a Tomsk airport cafe.

The Interfax agency said the cafe owners were checking CCTV to see if it could provide any evidence.

Who is Alexei Navalny?

He made a name for himself by exposing official corruption, labelling Mr Putin’s United Russia as “the party of crooks and thieves”, and has served several jail terms.

In 2011 he was arrested and imprisoned for 15 days following protests over vote-rigging by Mr Putin’s United Russia party in parliamentary elections.

Mr Navalny was briefly jailed in July 2013 on embezzlement charges but denounced the sentence as political.

He attempted to stand in the 2018 presidential race but was barred because of previous fraud convictions in a case he again said was politically motivated.

Mr Navalny was also given a 30-day jail term in July 2019 after calling for unauthorised protests.

He was taken ill during that jail sentence. Doctors diagnosed him with “contact dermatitis” but he said he had never had any acute allergic reactions and his own doctor suggested he might have been exposed to “some toxic agent”. Mr Navalny also said he thought he may have been poisoned.

Mr Navalny also suffered a serious chemical burn to his right eye in 2017 when he was assaulted with green, antiseptic dye.

Last year his Anti-Corruption Foundation was officially declared a “foreign agent”, enabling the authorities to subject it to more checks.

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Tiger King zoo permanently closes

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Tiger King zoo permanently closes

The exotic cat zoo made famous by the Netflix series Tiger King is closing for good.

Current owner Jeff Lowe announced the decision in a Facebook post, blaming “the pressures of” animal rights charity Peta.

It comes after a federal judge ordered the zoo be handed over to Carole Baskin as part of a ruling in a $1m (£800,000) trademark dispute.

That meant the current operators had to be out in 120 days.

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Jeff Lowe is the former business partner of Joe Exotic, who is currently serving a 22-year sentence for his involvement in a murder-for-hire plot and animal abuse.

“The Tiger King phenomenon has definitely changed our lives in many ways,” he said in his post.

“It has brought us more attention than any human deserves, good and bad.

“It has, and probably will continue to make us a target of every nutjob and animal rights loon in the world, but we are prepared.”

Jeff Lowe added that he has voluntarily forfeited his United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) exhibitor’s license – which allowed him to buy and sell animals – due to the park’s permanent closure.

He said that after “five consecutive perfect inspections”, the USDA have now “folded to the pressures of Peta and continue to make false accusations against me”.

“Suspiciously, less than 24 hours after I contacted the USDA to voluntarily forfeit my license, they notify me that they are suspending my license for 21 days for a litany of falsehoods.”

Brittany Peet, who works on the captive animal team at Peta, called for Jeff Lowe’s license to be permanently removed.

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“Peta looks forward to seeing every one of the long-suffering animals at the G.W. Zoo be transferred to an appropriate facility where it won’t take federal intervention for a sick cat to receive veterinary care,” she said in a statement.

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Student in the grip of Police for sodomizing neighbour’s son

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Student in the grip of Police for sodomizing neighbour’s son

A 25 year old student who allegedly had anal sex with his co-tenant’s son who is 11, at Teshie has been put before an Accra Circuit Court charged with defilement

Samuel Offei Kwaku Gyan in the company of his lawyer denied the offence.

Gyan has been admitted to bail in the sum of GH¢60,000 with three sureties one of whom must be a public servant earning not less than GH¢2,000.

The court presided over by Mrs. Christina Cann ordered Gyan to stay 100-meters away from the 11 year old victim.

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Prosecution was also ordered to file its witness statements and all document they intend to rely on the accused for the trial.

The matter has been adjourned to September 16 for Case Management Conference (CMC) Prosecuting, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Agnes Boafo said the complainant is Sierra Leonean and mother of the victim and they both reside at Teshie.

DSP Boafo said Gyan is a co-tenant to the complainant and on August 8, this year, while the complainant was at work, the victim went to the accused’s room to play television game and fell asleep in a couch in the room.

Prosecution said Gyan took advantage of that and had sexual intercourse with the victim through his anus and warned him not tell anyone. She said on August 9, this year the victim visited the accused again and he repeated the act.

She said the victim not happy with the situation informed her mother and the mother reported the matter to the Domestic Violence and Victim’s Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service at Nungua.

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The Prosecution said the complainant was given a Police medical report form to seek treatment at the hospital and report back.

Prosecution said Gyan was later arrested by the Police.

Mahama assures Ghanaians of free primary healthcare

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Mahama assures Ghanaians of free primary healthcare

The presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr John Dramani Mahama, says a new National Democratic Congress (NDC) government will implement a Free Primary Health Care Plan to provide health for all Ghanaians.

He stressed “this will remove cost as a barrier to healthcare and ensure health for all”.

Addressing members and supporters of NDC at Akatsi on Tuesday as part of his four-day tour of the Volta Region, Mr Mahama noted that despite the implementation of the NHIS, gaps  still  remain  in  the  delivery  of  universal  healthcare  in  the  country.

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He is  therefore seeking to address the gap with the introduction of Free Primary Healthcare.

This means regardless of the validity or otherwise of one’s NHIS card, that person can access health care at no cost at the district level.

Mr Mahama said the free primary healthcare plan, which will be available to all patients in CHPS compounds, polyclinics, health centres and district hospitals, will ensure that the most common illnesses afflicting Ghanaians are detected and treated early, before complications set in.

He also told market women in Akatsi that a new NDC government will provide them with a modern market to enable them conduct their businesses in a conducive atmosphere.

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