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The Upper East Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Emmanuel Kofi Dzotsi, says the Region has enough rabies vaccines at its medical store to manage dog bites. 

Mr Samuel Baba Azure, a Catechist at the Saints Simon and Jude Catholic Church at Gowrie in the Bongo District in the Upper East Region has died.

The Purim African Youth Development (PAYDP-Ghana), a non-governmental organisation, has organised a two-day capacity building workshop on Sexual Reproductive Health and Gender Based violence for stakeholders in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region. The participants, drawn from six communities namely Anafobisi, Dua, Zorko-Goo, Bongo-Soe, Gowrie and Zorko-Kodorogo, were…

The Anafobisi community in the Bongo District, Upper East Region, has begun a self-help project to build a three-unit classroom block for the Kindergarten and Primary ‘A’ school. The community is therefore appealing to the Government, Non-Governmental Organisations, philanthropists among others for assistance. The pupils from kindergarten to primary four,…

Teenage pregnancy and child marriage continue to be major development issues in Bongo District of the Upper East Region leading to school dropouts and deepening the poverty cycle among families. As a result, stakeholders in the district have resolved to work together to intensify sensitisation among communities, on the effects…

Madam Cecilia Abena Dapaah, Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources says access to potable water, improved environmental sanitation are critical components of ensuring good health of the people. She said several investments in potable water and environmental sanitation provisions had been implemented under various strategies; most major water projects were…

Nurses and Midwives at the Bongo District Hospital in Upper East Region have presented GHȻ4000.00 cash to Madam Alice Akurigo, a nurse at the Hospital whose house was razed by fire. Mr Dickson Baba Nsoh, Nurses and Midwives Manager of the Hospital, who led a team of Ward Managers and…

The Upper East Regional Minister, Stephen Yakubu, has appealed to the people of Bongo to give the New Patriotic Party (NPP) the opportunity for the first time to represent them in Parliament in the 2024 elections.

Awareness On Sexual Reproductive Health Will Enhance Safe Sexual Life – Prof Amoatey

Professor Charles Amoatey, the Director, Academy of Leadership and Executive Training, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), said with proper sexual and reproductive health awareness, people will have a satisfying and safe sexual life. “They will have the capability to reproduce and the freedom to decide if, when,…