AMA

We Will Focus On Improving Air Quality – AMA Health Director
07 Feb

We Will Focus On Improving Air Quality – AMA Health Director

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The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has announced that the 2024 Clean Ghana Campaign will focus on improving air quality in the country’s capital. This follows the recent IQAir index, which named Accra as the leading city in the world with the poorest air quality. Launching this year’s edition at Chorkor in Accra on February 7, Metropolitan Public Health Director, Florence Kuukyi, said they chose to begin the campaign in the area because it was identified as one of the hotspots of air pollution in Accra due to the mass production of smoked fish. “Today we are in Chorkor, a place…
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Korle Bu Teaching Hospital To Hand Over Morgue To AMA
07 Feb

Korle Bu Teaching Hospital To Hand Over Morgue To AMA

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The Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) in Accra is to hand over the hospital’s mortuary to the Accra Metropolitan Assembly to be used as a city morgue for the preservation of unidentified bodies. This is after the hospital has completed the construction of a new mortuary it is working on as part of activities to commemorate its centenary anniversary. The Chief Executive Officer of the hospital, Dr Opoku Ware Ampomah, who disclosed this in an interview with the Daily Graphic in Accra, said the construction of the new morgue project was under a private-public partnership agreement. The hospital was established…
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‘Address Challenges To Sustain Gains Of On-going Clean-up Operation’
06 Oct

‘Address Challenges To Sustain Gains Of On-going Clean-up Operation’

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An Environmental Health Analyst at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Mr. Joseph A. Asitanga, has hinted that until some challenges were addressed, the gains made from the ongoing clean-up exercise would not have the needed impact. The challenges, he enumerated, included the unwillingness of the squatters to assist in the clean-up; non availability of access routes and the claim that they (the squatters had not been informed). He, therefore, called for more information on the project. He observed that if the above challenges were not addressed, the desired results from the clean-up operation will not be achieved. He made the…
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