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Water shortage hits KATH; surgeries suspended

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  • cha 10 years ago

    We need better leaders -

  • Lady 10 years ago

    What kind of hopeless nation is this?

  • OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

    Source: Daily Guide...

    All of a sudden nonentities want to portray to the world how close they were to the late President.

    Those who had to chat with him for one hour everyday, those Deputy Ministers who had to call him ...
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  • The Who 10 years ago

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    1. 10 pieces of white cloth (for pregnancy & outdooring)
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  • Urown 10 years ago

    what is your point?

  • AWUNI 10 years ago

    THIS GUY IS CURSED AND WITH HIM LEADING, NOTHING GOES ON WELL IN THE COUNTRY BUT NDC FOLLOWERS DON'T LISTEN. THEY DO NOT ACCCEPT THIS FACT BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT WAS ENSTOOLED BY NDC PARTY. THEY ARE BEHAVING LIKE THEY DON'T LI ...
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  • kwame no 1 10 years ago

    Ghana people are so dump they still wanna be NDC hahaha poor people

  • Original Gaby Bruk 10 years ago

    Oil companies import water
    General News of Thursday, 2 May 2013
    Source: Daily Graphic

    International oil companies in the Jubilee Field now import potable water from Cote d’Ivoire and Benin because of the inability of t ...
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  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

    If a whole nation such as Ghana, can go black out for almost 6 hours under NDC
    senseless led Dramani Mahama the most
    deceitful and dishonest and liar President, what credibility do Ghana has?

    The sovereinghty of our nati ...
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  • jojo 10 years ago

    The prority for this government is Toyota Landcruiser v8,for their 90 or so ministers,Oil Companies importing WATER from Ivory Coast,KATH cannot perform surgery because of lack of water,Ghana qualifies definitely as as a fail ...
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  • AYELE 10 years ago

    WHO IS TO BE BLAMED NOW? THE HOSPITALS OR THE GOVT?

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE 10 years ago

    "IT IS ONLY A FOOL, WHO ALLOWS HIS TESTICLES TO BE STEPPED ON TWICE"-------GO OUT THERE AND RECEIVE YOUR REWARD, ALL GHANAIANS. GO AND PAY THE PRICE FOR YOUR FOOLISHNESS. YOU DON'T GIVE A SECOND MANDATE TO AN INCOMPETENT AND ...
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  • AYELE 10 years ago

    HOW STUPID WILL OUR HOSPITAL BE NOT TO HAVE A BIGGER RESERVOIRS TO STORE WATERS FOR AT LEAST A 15DAYS?

  • wear 10 years ago

    You´re saying what a hopeless country is this, now you´ve seen, when Visionary man Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was developing this country from strectch terrorist groups..Danquah-Busia tradition never allowed him, considerin ...
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  • Yao 10 years ago

    Nkrumah was a terrorist and a Dictator

  • j0eY L0nd0n 10 years ago

    That is how they polluted the masses simply because he wasn't an akyem clans man!

  • Field Marshall Mosquito 10 years ago

    Kotaka and JWK Harlley overthrew Nkrumah and they were both in Nkrumah's regime!!JWK Harlley was the IGP of police and Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka was the army chief reponsible for the Northern sector(that is from Kumasi to the no ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

    Talk sense. What was the population of Ghana at that time. Study a little USA history and you will learn that at the time of Nkrumah, some parts of Almighty USA were using communual bathrooms and toilets. How much did the Bri ...
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  • Paul Amuna 10 years ago

    Your views do not reflect the facts of history.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

    Read the declassified information on the CIA coup that toppled Nkrumah

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

    Paul, can you respectfully and kindly tell me which of the points I posted that does not reflect the facts of history? Was Nkrumah not a dictator? Did he not declare himself President for life? What did he send Capt Kata to d ...
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  • Field Marshall Mosquito 10 years ago

    Karikari,that is so true!!Thank you!!!

  • DAN 10 years ago

    the only communial baths and toilets would be in schools and military barracks..During the 1960 people had single toilets in usa! You would have to go back to 1940's before people had water in pipelines and then they had sing ...
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  • Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 10 years ago

    Dear Frank Agyena-Karikari,Why do you write onesided stuff? I expect this from someone,brainwashed by Imperilists and Neocolonialists.I am 76 years old now and have been a consultant in surgery in Germany since 1974.I left Gh ...
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  • Pelicles 10 years ago

    You also wrote one-sided story. No one dispute the fact that Nkrumah did nothing. He did well and remember that he was the only leader who did not inherit any debt but left debt. Remember also that he borrowed money for the ...
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  • Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 10 years ago

    Dear Pelicles, do you want to tell me that a Prez.performs better only when he has a Vice!Do you know why many countries are joining the European Union and how much it costs the German Taxpayer?Every person with brains hails ...
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  • Yaw 10 years ago

    Now this is very serious.Water shortage hitting our hospitals,and yet these inept government is planning to spend money celebrating both birth and death anniversary of Atta Mills?For what?
    Where is the conscience of these vi ...
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  • Katie 10 years ago

    How can a hospital experience water and power outages? This is such a travesty and a bloody SHAME!

  • Ken Ntiamoa 10 years ago

    This one is arson too

    Ken

  • DR. KOFI MENSAH- GERMANY 10 years ago

    THIS NONSENSE CAN ONLY HAPPEN IN PRIMITIVE GHANA, WHY ?

  • NON-ALIGNED 10 years ago

    Doc. please come up with solutions and not sit on your high horses in Germany and rubbish your country of birth or if not, a country of your forefathers.

    We need suggestions and solutions not such comments because you thin ...
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  • BOLD 10 years ago

    I like your attitude and one of the solutions is for the nation to stop stealing itself to death and put the funds into more important areas. Another solution is to calling these so called politicians honourables and His Exce ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

    The government knows the solution already but just being irresponsible. If an important company that supplies water to millions of people in the municipality has no back up transformer to pump water to the people but can spen ...
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  • Akortsu 10 years ago

    The raining season is here so lets get our civil engineers to construct water reservoir in every district to store the rain water which can be treated for consumption. This means we need water treatment plant in every distric ...
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  • ADAMU KAMARA 10 years ago

    I SUGGEST TO THE HOSPITAL AUTHORITY TO DIG A BORE HOLE AND TEAT IT NICELY TO BE USED AT THE HOSPITAL. THIS IS WHAT IS DONE IN HOLLAND. EVERY HOSPITAL DO HAVE IT.S OWN WATER PROCESING. GOD HELP GHANA.

  • Nii Lante Okunka 10 years ago

    Yes indeed, we have a failed nation with useless leaders.Just imagine denying good drinking water and power to the citizenry,yet our President is proposing to build a giant statue for our first leader.To understand why such a ...
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  • GREAT NANA ANTWI 10 years ago

    ARE YOU IN NEED OF A FAST POWERFULL SPIRITUALIST?THEN GO TO www.greatnanapowerfullspiritualist.blogspot.com

  • Remove Indemnity Clause 10 years ago

    Kuffour awarded himself with Gold while the hospitals do not have beds.

  • BOLD 10 years ago

    Should Kuffour's stupidity be repeated? I cannot understand the way we think. He did something stupid so Mahama should also come out with his own stupidity. Come on, think for a change, mother fucker!

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

    This something stupid with some Ghanains whose political leanings make them blind and show their foolery. Kuffour did things that were economically bad and socially unacceptable. Doe that mean Mahama should do same? Can we le ...
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  • NON-ALIGNED 10 years ago

    With so many so so-called learned leaders and citizens........we continually find ourselves in these dire straits of non-development.

    QUOTE: "In the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty."
    Well.....I don't mean it liter ...
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  • BOLD 10 years ago

    Once again, I like your piece and attitude. We are not BOLD enough to confront change and that is becoming a character!

  • oppong london 10 years ago

    ndc government is just waste,23 years of administering the country,s affairs couldn,t solve just a single problem[water]and electricity ,so what,s the importance of retaining these useless people in power.

  • BE BOLD 10 years ago

    It is the fault of those who put them there. Some people and tribes affiliate themselves with NDC regardless of their performance and that is destroying the country. For example, they are going to spend money to celebrate the ...
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  • Akua Yirenkyi 10 years ago

    Some of us write or comment any how when
    it comes to politics. Do you know some people do illegal connections to their homes without paying? They see pipes burst without reparing? Just because its for the government. Washing ...
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  • BE BOLD 10 years ago

    Akua, I have seen that for myself and you are correct but see, the government does not any good example for the people to follow. Is it necessary to celebrate the birth and death of someone who was just doing his job with fun ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Akua, are there no people paid by the state to ensure things are done properly?

  • ABEZE 10 years ago

    oooooo people gonna die bcos of water ooooooooo

  • ADABRAKA 10 years ago

    They never go on strike when conditions of service such as water shortage, poor equipments and facilities run out. With salaries they will go on strike.

  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Adabraka, if they want to go strike for all these then they will be permanently on strike. You may agree that people may improvise when it comes to facilities. How do you improvise when it is your salary not being paid? Leave ...
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  • KNYC (USMC) 10 years ago

    There more to come. The lack of P-O-L-C is killing Ghana. Planning, Organizing, Leading, and Controlling. We can invest all the money we want but without understanding this P-O-L-C and implementing this in our future leaders ...
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  • ghamail 10 years ago

    Have you opened your account at ghamail.com yet? Secure an email address that identifies you and represents who you are before its too late. We just moved into a new commercial facility - new commercial servers, new wares mea ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    "...is the result of unstable power to guarantee uninterrupted supply of water to the hospital."

    Well, it is no more UNINTERRUPTED SUPPLY OF WATER to the hospital. This is a shame. Symptoms of a failed nation.

  • Hazor 10 years ago

    Oh no this is unprecedented achivement by president Mahama.From Cape Coast to Kumasi water shortage hiting all major hospitals.This is better Ghana Agenda president Mahama promise Ghana,Ghanaians should not cry the best is ye ...
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  • Alex nanabenyin 10 years ago

    At this time in Ghana who!!!!!! Is too much our leaders put thing in place,if was taxes they will do it quick come on is a shame to the country

  • Akos 10 years ago

    Eeii, your brofo be too much oo!

  • che 10 years ago

    THIS IS STUPIDITY ON THE PART OF THE HOSPITAL AUTHORITIES,WHAT DO THEY COLLECT THE MONIES FOR? JUST WATER FOR SURGERY AND YU CANT AFFORD AND BLAMING GOVERNMENT.MEANWHILE YOU SPEND MONEY ON BIG BIG WATER TANKERS FOR YOUR FARMS ...
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  • J H New Yorkabysma 10 years ago

    This news is disgusting and not worthy of a 56 years old independent West African nation of Ghana ! A nation blessed with all natural resources you can think of,but after
    two greedy,brainless,and self seeking military men o ...
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  • JH New York 10 years ago

    Correction : J H New York

  • JH New York 10 years ago

    abysmal : immeasurably low or wrecked.

  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

    The concern citizens of Ghanaians abroad such as America, Canada, London, Germany, Italy, Australia and Holland, is appealing to the highest court of our country to throw the petitioners foolish and diabolical case that is ha ...
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  • ASONABA 10 years ago

    THIS IS A HIGHLY DISPUTED ISSUE AND IT IS SURPRISING THAT IT'S TAKING SO LONG TO RESOLVE IT DESPITE HOW INTELLIGENT GHANAIANS ARE.HAVE WE OUTLIVED THE VALUE OF OUR INTELLIGENCE?NO WONDER NOTHING WORKS-EVIDENCE OF A FAILED NAT ...
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  • bro k 10 years ago

    GOD HELP THE HOSPITAL
    TO DO WHAT THEY CANNOT
    I FEEL SO SAD BUT I KNOW GOD WOULD SURELY INTERVENE.

  • NANA ASARE 10 years ago

    I THINK WE HAVE AN IRESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT THAT WILL DO ANYTHING TO BE IN POWER AND NOT TO SEE THE WELLFARE OF IT'S CITIZENS, ALL THEY ARE INTERESTED IS TO LOOT THE COUNTRY.

  • Ef Kobla 10 years ago

    Funny people. Instead of using the money to inmprove KATH they are spending the money to celebrate the death of a dead PRESIDENT. Can Ghanaians give just ONE reason why the death of Prof Mills must be observed. We are just fo ...
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  • Kretz D - Beantown 10 years ago

    More than 50years of independence in Ghana we are still facing water problems. If this is not a failed nation what do you call that? Our incompetent, greed, corrupt and wicked leaders are failing Ghanaians.

  • Ken Ntiamoa 10 years ago

    Stop the expenditure for President Mills death anniversary and use the money to provide water for surgery. I am sure the late President would prefer that than the glorification of his passing away. But, stupid Africans won't ...
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  • Hazor 10 years ago

    GHana is now reaping the benefit of Mills/Mahama better Ghana Agenda.Water shortage that hits KATH and suspended of surgeries is the portions of Better Ghana Agenda that Mahama promise Ghana.In Accra Legon students are to pay ...
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  • AMANKWA 10 years ago

    Kwaku Dua took money from the world Bank with the excuse to provide water for Ashanti region. Where is the money and where is the water.

  • Queen 10 years ago

    SIMPLY RIDICULOUS!

  • Kofi Abochie 10 years ago

    Oh my motherland!!! Doesn't KATH have an Emergency Power System to power critical equipment like pumps running its water supply system? The Electrical Power System of KATH surely needs to be updated and must have appropriate ...
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  • DAN 10 years ago

    they would only be able to pump what ghana water company provide..

  • Barima Yaw 10 years ago

    Oh ho

  • Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 10 years ago

    Quo vadis, Ghana? What a shame!Everything is falling apart!Why do people always choose wrong leaders?

  • Sankofa 10 years ago

    ECG and GWSC should sort this problem out and restore water supply to KATH immediately!

    Why should lives be put at risk?

    We want our public bodies to act responsibly and not jeopardise lives by failing to provide good q ...
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  • social commentator 10 years ago

    OH!! Mother Ghana' Mahama is spending money on Nkonfem , they are now flying freely from Ghana coast to post. Patients are not....... becuase water is not Flowing.More sadly enough, Planning committee are spendng money on USE ...
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  • Sam Bode 10 years ago

    What is happening to mother Ghana? Instead of pursuing policies to improve and sustain lives we are rather wasting funds on vilifying the dead. What sense does it make to spend millions of Ghana Cedis belonging to the people ...
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  • Benjamin Nathan 10 years ago

    Who is responsible for the provisions of water for the hospital? Ans. Me Ghanaians.