Fifteen (15) per cent of residents of the Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana’s second largest city, is said to engage in open defecation, the Waste Management Department of the Metropolitan Assembly has...
Open defaecation gets out of hand around University of Health & Allied Sciences; lecturers, chiefs fingered
A resident of Sokode Gbogame, a suburb of Ho in the Volta Region where the University of...
Saturday, April 28 will witness the launch of the Clean Zongo Project, an initiative of the Ministry of Inner City and Zongo Development. The Project will be launched in Nima, one of the popular...
Survival by handwashing, the story of 45-year old Awo 45 year old Awo Lamptey has commercialized the art of handwashing, washing for people to make a living for a family of six. Handwashing is ...
The First Lady, Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo has stated that taking the necessary steps, to vigorously fight malaria will have positive implications for human development and business and economic growth...
Polytanks Ghana, one of the leading producers of plastic storage tanks in Ghana, has presented an undisclosed amount to Safe Water Network, a non-governmental organisation, towards the organisation...
Government says it owes waste collectors and operators of landfill sites across the country about 800 million cedis, a situation that is crippling waste management efforts. Managers of landfill site...
The National Health Insurance Authority is proposing a special tax on sugar-sweetened and alcoholic beverages as additional source of funding for the National Health Insurance Scheme. The new levy...
The Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies, Dr Joseph Siaw Agyepong, has pledged his support and commitment towards the government’s sanitation agenda. Dr. Agyepong lauded the...
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) on Saturday cleared filth at the London Market in Accra. Mr Sam Ayeh-Datey, the AMA Coordinating Director who led in the exercise called on the inhabitants to...
The Ministry of Health has denied putting out any forms for sale for persons interested in enrolling in any of the Public Health Training Institutes. “They are fake,” Robert Cudjoe the Public...
The Komenda Edina Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Municipal Assembly in the Central Region has fined five persons, including an Assembly Member, for an open defecation at beach. The five were not taken to court...
LIXIL Group Corporation, a global leader in the housing and building industry, has endorsed a joint declaration with the World Toilet Organization, Saraya Co., Ltd., and the ANA BLUE WING Program on...
Government has announced it will from next year pursue a ‘Toilet for All’ agenda in a bid to end open defecation in the country. Consequent to that, it will provide 200,000 household toilets and...
A World Bank report has revealed that 19,000 lives are lost in Ghana annually through the effects of open defecation and its related poor sanitation diseases. This is because of the high rate of the...
Landlords owning houses without conveniences in the Upper East Region of Ghana has been given 3 months -from now to December, to construct toilet facilities for their respective houses or risk having...
The Member of Parliament for Zabzugu Constituency in the Northern Region has advised the government to start engaging the neighbouring countries on the fight against armyworm invasion in Ghana....
UNICEF Ghana Chief of WASH, Mr. David Duncan, has advised WASH sector partners to share more information on WASH programme implementation in the rural areas which were yielding results in order to...
Ensign College of Public health, located at Kpong in the Eastern region and affiliated to the Kwame Nkrumah Universitg of Science and Technology, Kumasi and the University of Utah in the USA, has...
Country Director of WaterAid Ghana, Mr. Mohammed Abdul-Nashiru, has expressed the urgent need to recognise efforts and contributions of the Regional Interagency Coordinating Committees (RICCS) and...
