Victims of road accidents formed the majority of the 6,500 orthopaedic cases which were recorded in 2009 at the Orthopaedic Training Centre at Nsawam.
Sister Elizabeth Newman, a director of the centre, made that known when the Kaneshie Area Witness Movement of the Apostolic Church, Ghana interacted with the patients of the centre and presented food items to the inmates as part of its 75th anniversary celebration.
Sister Newman urged drivers to be extra careful on the roads, since accidents on the road resulted in many people losing their limbs.
She said the orthopaedic workshop, the mobile clinic and the children’s department had all been overwhelmed with work as a result of road accidents in the country.
Sister Newman urged corporate institutions, especially the mobile telephony companies, not to concentrate their social responsibility effort in the cities alone but to spread it to cover institutions such as the centre for the rehabilitation of the physically-challenged in the country.
She said the orthopaedic centre spent GH¢10,000 a year to operate the mobile clinic which toured the countryside to handle cases of birth deformities and road accident victims.
The Head Pastor of the Kaneshie branch of the Apostolic Church, Ghana, Pastor Andy Nortey, who presented the items, described the work of the centre as a great service to humanity and said without it many people would have been languishing with disability for the rest of their lives.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
EFFORTS AT ACHIEVING GENDER PARITY RATIO...Legon enrols more females (PAGE 11, AUGUST 13, 2010)
THE University of Ghana, Legon is enrolling more female students to enable the University to achieve its gender parity policy of 50—50 ratio.
Currently the student population of the University is 35,000 with males constituting 57 per cent while females make up 43 per cent.
Professor Kwesi Yankah, Pro Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana who was speaking at the orientation course for 80 professionals admitted by the University for the Economic Policy Management (EPM) programme, said the ratio of the girl-child and that of the boy in the University showed a marked improvement from the mid 1990s when the University was dominated by male students.
He explained that at the undergraduate level, female enrolment had risen from 28 per cent in the mid 1990s to 43 per cent in 2009/2010 academic year.
Prof. Yankah also said that female enrolment in graduate schools which was 30 per cent last year hit 35 per cent this year through the enrolment of the EPM programme.
The Pro- Vice Chancellor of the University, therefore, gave the assurance that the University would continue to pursue its gender policy of aiming at a 50-50 ratio.’’
He said the EPM programme had assisted professionals from the sub region to bring their practical experience from the workplace to link the theory of the University to produce all round knowledge for the socio-economic development of the country.
He said the programme was unique which equipped practitioners to draw on a wider pool of policy experience and best practices both within and outside their own regions to develop a sustainable policy framework and implement plans for economic management.
The Pro-Vice Chancellor said unlike the standard master’s programme in Economics, the EPM was designed exclusively for practitioners in governmemt, ministries, departments, agencies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the private sector.
He commended the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) and the joint Japan World Bank Graduate Fellowship Programme for sponsoring the 12-month master’s programme in EPM.
He said the admission of practitioners from Sierra-Leone, Nigeria , Liberia and Gambia would amount to strengthening the already existing bonds of friendship not only at the national level, but also at the University level.
Prof. Yankah said over the years, the University had stretched its arms to help rebuild human resources of neighbouring countries, especially when war and other catastrophes had shattered economies and human resource bases.
Currently the student population of the University is 35,000 with males constituting 57 per cent while females make up 43 per cent.
Professor Kwesi Yankah, Pro Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana who was speaking at the orientation course for 80 professionals admitted by the University for the Economic Policy Management (EPM) programme, said the ratio of the girl-child and that of the boy in the University showed a marked improvement from the mid 1990s when the University was dominated by male students.
He explained that at the undergraduate level, female enrolment had risen from 28 per cent in the mid 1990s to 43 per cent in 2009/2010 academic year.
Prof. Yankah also said that female enrolment in graduate schools which was 30 per cent last year hit 35 per cent this year through the enrolment of the EPM programme.
The Pro- Vice Chancellor of the University, therefore, gave the assurance that the University would continue to pursue its gender policy of aiming at a 50-50 ratio.’’
He said the EPM programme had assisted professionals from the sub region to bring their practical experience from the workplace to link the theory of the University to produce all round knowledge for the socio-economic development of the country.
He said the programme was unique which equipped practitioners to draw on a wider pool of policy experience and best practices both within and outside their own regions to develop a sustainable policy framework and implement plans for economic management.
The Pro-Vice Chancellor said unlike the standard master’s programme in Economics, the EPM was designed exclusively for practitioners in governmemt, ministries, departments, agencies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the private sector.
He commended the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) and the joint Japan World Bank Graduate Fellowship Programme for sponsoring the 12-month master’s programme in EPM.
He said the admission of practitioners from Sierra-Leone, Nigeria , Liberia and Gambia would amount to strengthening the already existing bonds of friendship not only at the national level, but also at the University level.
Prof. Yankah said over the years, the University had stretched its arms to help rebuild human resources of neighbouring countries, especially when war and other catastrophes had shattered economies and human resource bases.
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