Source: GNA - About 300 women in the Tamale Metropolis were screened for breast cancer in an exercise organized by My Life Fair Organization, an NGO, as part of activities to mark this year’s World Breast Cancer Day.

Source GNA - Mr. Ebenezer Tawiah, Officer for the Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolitan School Health Education Programme (SHEP) has expressed worry over the delay in the supply of hygiene and sanitation materials to schools in efforts to promote basic health principles among school pupils.

Source: GNA - Every visitor to the World Vision Ghana, Accra office was on Thursday encouraged to wash their hands with soap and running water at the gate before entering the offices as part of the sensitization on hand washing to mark Global hand washing day.

Source: thefinderonline.com -Special schools in the country continue to struggle for resources to operate. 
The schools face numerous problems, including deplorable nature of their water system and shortage of teaching and learning materials.

Their living conditions are horrible and pitiable; the dormitories and the classrooms are overcrowded.

Source: GNA - Prince Bagnaba Mba, President of the Forum for National Equity, has advocated a national institute of policy and strategic studies, where civil and public servants would receive national orientation about the effective implementation of policies.

Source: Daily Graphic Ghana - A United States of America (USA)-based non-governmental organisation, Wells for Relief International, has drilled 1,000 boreholes to provide potable water for a number of communities in five districts in the country.

The boreholes, which were drilled by Lifetime Wells Ghana, an affiliate of the US-based NGO, are fitted with hand pipes. The beneficiary communities are in the Akatsi North, Ketu North, Ketu South, Akatsi South, Nakpanduri, Bimbilla and Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo districts.

Source: TV3network.com - Students of the Mampong Senior High Technical School for the Deaf are reeling under poor and inadequate facilities for teaching and learning.

The school, established in 1975 to provide vocational, technical and secondary education for the hearing impaired, is ill-equipped to efficiently equipped the students with the requisite skill needed to survive.

Source: Daily Graphic Ghana - Residents of La, in Accra, have benefited from a three-day free health screening exercise organised in the community. 

The residents were screened for blood pressure, diabetes, HIV, tuberculosis and eye defects. They were also given post test counselling, dewormers and free condoms.