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The Navrongo Health Research Centre [NHRC] located in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality of the Upper East Region, is set to commence testing of samples for the novel coronavirus.   Dr. Winfred Ofosu - Upper East RDHS Upper East Regional Director of Health Services, Dr. Winfred Ofosu disclosed this in an interview with journalists in Bolgatanga this Thursday.  “We have come a long way. Though we had the various equipment, one of the things that delayed us was the installation kits which the health research centre had to order from outside. The good news is that everything has been installed now,” he stated. It will be recalled that, the Regional Director first dropped the hint about the establishment of the Navrongo COVID-19 testing centre at the Residency on 5 th April, 2020 during a media briefing on the very first recorded COVID-19 case in the region. Samples of suspected COVID-19 patients have always been transported to Tamale, a two-hour drive from Uppe...

The Ghana Centre for Democratic Development [CDD-Ghana], has held a constituency stakeholders’ engagement meeting with some selected constituents in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region to share its findings on a research it had conducted on government’s “One Million Dollar Per Constituency” policy.   Miss Mildred E. Adzraku, CDD Research Analyst doing her presentation The meeting, held this Monday in the district’s capital, Bongo had participants including the Bongo District Chief Executive and some departmental/unit heads of the Assembly, traditional leaders, executives of the Ghana Federation of Disability Organisations, Hon. Assembly members,   youth groups and women’s association leaders among others who made active contributions to the discussions. A Research Analyst with CDD-Ghana Miss Mildred Edinam Adzraku, in her statement to set the tone for the day’s proceedings, disclosed that the report for the discussions formed part of a broader project kno...

  The Upper East Regional Minister, Hon. Tangoba Abayage has extended her inspection visits of the ongoing voters’ registration exercise to some centres in Bongo Constituency in the Bongo District and Bolgatanga Central Constituency, in the Bolgatanga Municipality.     The day’s rounds began in the Bongo Constituency where the regional minister was led to the very first stop at the Anafobiisi Primary School registration centre which had recorded 377 registrants at about 13:05 GMT. The Minister and her team members had their temperatures monitored with a thermometre gun among other COVID-19 protocols before allowed into a marked area within which the exercise was taking place.  Hon. Tangoba @ Anafobiisi centre [1st from left] asking the progress so far Hon. Tangoba also called on the Bongo district directorate of the Electoral Commission [EC] around half-past-one and was informed by the EC Director that, a total of 5,818 citizens had been registered at...