Mr Ernest Amoah Ampah, Programme Officer at the School Health Education Programme (SHEP) Unit, Ghana Education Service (GES), has advocated effective strategies to reduce the risk factors that contribute to the poor health of adolescents. He said health workers should relate well with the young ones to enable them to…
Stakeholders in the education sector have been urged to strengthen the monitoring of caterers and food vendors at schools to ensure food safety and quality nutrition for children. Mrs Theresa Oppong-Mensah, Director of School Health Education Programme (SHEP), who made the call, said monitoring of the School Feeding Programme caterers…
THE WORLD Health Organisation estimates that at least 777,000 girls under the age of 15 years give birth each year in developing regions. In Latin America and the Caribbean, a modest approximation of 120 young girls give birth daily. This estimation is exclusive of pregnancies that end in abortion and miscarriage, a release from the regional office of the Pan-American Health Organisation (PAHO), states. It adds that this is the …
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Les membres du cabinet ont pris note que le National Development Strategy ne pourra pas se realiser selon le calendrier décidé et sera étendu jusqu’a 2022, de la promulgation du Quarantine (COVID-19) (Amendment No. 6) Regulations 2020., uu’il n;y a que 18 cas actifs de Covid-19 dans le pays entre autres.
1. Cabinet has taken note that in view of the COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions, the review of the National Development Strategy could not be completed as planned.
Pending the completion of the review and the publication of the new outline planning schemes, Cabinet has agreed to the time frame of the National Development Strategy (2003) being extended to the year 2022 pursuant to section 12(4) of the Planning and Development Act. The National Development Strategy is a national land use strategy which provides a basis for the long term land use planning and comprises a range of policies to guide public sector investment projects, optimise e