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.
Poor road network at Kayoro, a farming community in the Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region is hindering farmers from accessing market centres, resulting in post-harvest losses. The major road linking the community directly to Paga, the district capital, through Baliu and Pinda communities, is in a deplorable…
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Three COVID-19 related deaths have been recorded in two municipalities in the Upper East Region this year.
Two of the deaths were captured in the region s COVID-19 Situational Report of January 14, 2021 while the other death occurred last Friday, January 15, 2021 and is expected to be captured in the next report this week.
The report indicated that two of the deaths - a 63-year-old woman and a 55-year -old man - were recorded in the Bolgatanga and Kassena Nankana Municipalities, while the third victim, a man in his 30s, was a General Nurse at the Paediatric Unit of the Navrongo War Memorial Hospital who passed on at the Regional Hospital at Bolgatanga last Friday.
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The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana(PFAG) with support from Oxfam, Ghana, has presented food items and Personal Protective Equipment(PPEs) worth GH¢100,000 to about 400 needy small holder farmers in the Upper East and North East Regions.
The food items made up of rice and cooking oil were distributed to the beneficiary farmers in the Bolgatanga and Kassena Nankana Municipalities, Bongo, Talensi, Nabdam, Kassena Nankana West, Binduri and Bawku West districts in Upper East Region and Mamprugu Moagduri in the North East Region.
COVID-19 and Floods
The National President of the PFAG, Mr Abdul-Rahman Mohammed observed that the farming activities of members of the Association had been affected by the Coronavirus(COVID-19) pandemic and the floods in the two beneficiary regions.