Ghana’s public tertiary institutions will reopen later than expected for the start of the new academic session, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Deputy Minister of Education has announced. Ablakwa explained that the decision was to guarantee that an effective virus screening system was in place before foreign students traveling from affected West African countries arrived in the…
Ebola Virus Now In Ghana
Ghana’s health authorities have announced the first suspected case of the deadly Ebola virus at the country’s second biggest hospital, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), in Kumasi. Joseph Oduro, Deputy Director of Public Health in the Ashanti region, said on Sunday evening that the case resulted in the death of a 12-year-old girl. He said…