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On Friday 6th August 2021, the Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Andrew Asiamah Amoako declined to decide on what should be done to the Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman following a report that was laid before the floor of Parliament by a nine-member bi-partisan committee set to probe the Sputnik V saga. This is after the minority in parliament had called for a vote of no confidence on the health minister who is equally and MP representing Dormaa central constituency. During the public siting of the investigative committee,…

Kwaku Agyemang Manu who doubles as the Health Minister for mother Ghana, has uncovered that a sum of 3.1 million Ghanaians representing 10% of the country's populace experience the ill effects of one type of mental problem or another. As per the Health Minister, 41% of Ghanaians have mental misery going from mild, moderate or serious. The advancement Agyeman Manu expressed costs the country about 7% of its GDP. Reacting to an inquiry on the floor of Parliament for the sake of MP for Sege, Christian Corletey Otuteye on…

The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu has said that Ghana will continue to engage middlemen to some extent in the procurement of Covid-19 vaccines. Speaking at a Press briefing on 16th June 2021, he said the country had to utilize people who claimed they had authority to sell vaccines for Russia. “Whatever it is, we may have to procure and so far as we are getting bilateral engagements to do, we wouldn’t have options than to continue to engage middlemen to some limited extent,” the Health Minister stated. The…

The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman Manu has hinted on when next the country will get vaccines and he mentioned August 2021. He made this comment following the rising brouhaha about the use of middlemen to procure Sputnik-V vaccines at $19 instead of the $10 on the international market. Speaking with Citi News, the Health Minister indicated that the earliest time the country has to receive vaccines again would be in August 2021. “We are waiting for vaccines. The agreements I signed, if they give me an…