Health

Lagos, Nigeria –The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), the leading philanthropy empowering African entrepreneurs, will announce 1,200 African entrepreneurs across 54 African countries as beneficiaries of its flagship Entrepreneurship Programme. The announcement will be made on March 22, 2024. The new beneficiaries will become the 10th cohort of the 10-year-long TEF …

Accra, Ghana – MTN Ghana Foundation has invested a significant amount of money in women’s health by completing a state-of-the-art maternity and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) block at the Keta Municipal Hospital. This project, which cost over Ghc19 million and took 15 months to complete, is the largest of …

Accra, Ghana – MTN Ghana has collected over 5, 909 units of blood at its 2024 Save-a-Life campaign. The annual campaign organized to augment shortfalls at blood banks in Ghana, saw thousands of people participating at designated bleeding centres in all 16 regions across the country. Adwoa Wiafe, the Chief …

Tamale, Ghana – MTN Ghana Foundation with support from the Blood Bank Unit of the Tamale Teaching Hospital and other District Hospitals on Wednesday February 14th mobilised 621 units of blood from students of selected senior high schools across the Northern Region. The blood donation exercise by MTN Ghana Foundation …

Tamale, Ghana – MTN Ghana Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of Ghana’s leading telecom company MTN Ghana has carried out its twelve “Save a Life Campaign” initiative in dozens of schools across the country. The Save a Life Campaign is an annual activity by the MTN Ghana Foundation in …

Tamale, Ghana – Health non-profit NGO, Cornerstone Medical Outreach (CORMO) has provided free healthcare to one thousand two hundred (1,200) residents of Naaga community in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality of the Upper East Region of Ghana. The beneficiaries, who included children and adults, received free screening and treatment for malaria, respiratory …

Tamale, Ghana – Onchocerciasis also known as river blindness is the bane of the Naaga community in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality of the Upper East Region of Ghana. The disease can lead to sudden blindness when one is bitten by black fly, an insect that has made the Naga river in …

Tamale, Ghana – MTN Ghana has presented gift hampers to twenty (20) new born babies at the Tamale Teaching Hospital on boxing Day. The practice, which has become an annual ritual, affords the telecom company the opportunity to welcome babies born on December 25th with gift hampers in district, regional …

Why are Ghanaians volunteering to die? The day I saw my son’s nose discharging freely on a Saturday, I knew I had to act before it disrupted my Monday. As a single parent, the least disruption to my routine can throw my life out of balance and have my whole …

Oxford, England – Graduating executive MBA students of Oxford University’s Saïd Business School received wise counsel from African Development Bank President Dr Akinwumi Adesina on Friday. Delivering the business school’s 2023 commencement address, Adesina called on the graduates to use the skills and knowledge they had acquired to address some …