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By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

The United Nations Secretary General last week hosted a landmark post-Ebola recovery conference in New York aimed at charting the way forward for the countries hardest hit by the epidemic.

According to UN officials, the Post Ebola Recovery Plan, targeting Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, has seven components, key among which is youth development.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

By Rebecca Quaicoe-Duho, GHANA

A three-year long power crisis currently confronting Ghana has plunged the country’s health system into near chaos.

The country has been experiencing unprecedented power cuts for the past three years. This has led to the rationing of power in accordance with a timetable.

By Rebecca Quaicoe-Duho, GHANA

The cancer burden in developing countries is dominated by breast, prostate and cervical cancer.

The most significant challenge in this region is late presentation as people refuse to seek early treatment and rather prefer to use herbal treatment or consult pastors for healing.

These cancers, according to a Cancer Epidemiologist and Surgical Oncologist from the Rosewell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI), Professor Chukumere Nwogu, are amenable through early detection.

By Rebecca Quaicoe-Duho, GHANA

Ghana’s doctor-patient ratio for mental health is one doctor to almost two million people.

The country has only 14 psychiatric doctors and a population of almost 26 million.

There are only 1,600 psychiatric nurses instead of 20,000 as per World Health Organisation (WHO) standard.

The country also has only one occupational therapist.

By Allieu Sahid  Tunkara

Deputy Minister of Health and Sanitation II (MoHS), Madina Rahman, is engulfed in serious allegations of breach of agreement involving hundreds of millions of leones.

The minister has been accused by a group of volunteer street cleaners who say she has held up monies meant for them after completing a cleaning exercise sanctioned by the government.

The Street Life Family (SLF) claims Mrs Rahman owes them Le800M for the job done earlier this year.

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

It took me almost three weeks without writing. I feel very sad about it, especially when there are never-ending anomalies in the administration of our country. I’m now here and I welcome you to this my new column – NATIONAL CHARACTER – which I have promised my editor to sustain. I will begin with this ironic topic.