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One newborn child dies in Ghana every 15 minutes - UNICEF

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  • ( KOLA outside LONDON ) 9 years ago

    We thank the Mahama/NDC Cuba Doctors all over the place in Ghana. And also the NDC foot soldiers unqualified doctors in Ghana.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 9 years ago

    Shame on you. People should not fall for this crook. Ladies who fall for this are sold to sex traffickers and are forced into prostitution.
    The men are forced to work without pay and live under squalid conditions. Investigat ...
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  • HARUNA WEDGU 9 years ago

    MAHAMA MUST GO NOW.

  • ALHAJI KANO 9 years ago

    HE MUST BE BOLD TO STAY IF HE GOES NOW,HE WILL GET A BIG PROBLEM BECAUSE HE HAS STOLEN A LOT HE HAS TO FINISH HIS TERM SO THAT NDC CRIMINAL CONSTITUTION[INDEMNITY CLAUSE]WILL COVER HIM.YENTIE OBIAA NOW ABU AKA WOSEMU WO BEWE ...
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  • Tatal 9 years ago

    Is UNICEF telling the truth or just being alarmist? How many babies are born every 15 minutes or in a day in Ghana

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  • mia 9 years ago

    God mother Ghana needs you more than ever before. Our school system is broken, unemployment is very high, health system is the worse of all. Mahama and his government why? using $400 million dollar to buy sanitary pad for ...
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  • Anana 9 years ago

    This is not true that every four children born three die. Even in the villages where people don't attend hospital, three out of children don't die.

  • Royal 9 years ago

    read the article over agian my friend

  • Shabi 9 years ago

    My first reaction to this article was, here we go again. These idle over-paid UN staff doing almost nothing for a lot of pay. Sometimes I really do wonder if Ghana should continue paying her subscriptions to that so-called Wo ...
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  • 1616 9 years ago

    everything that is wrong in Ghana now blame mahama

  • SAD -INNOCENT CHILDREN 9 years ago

    EVERYTHING HAVE TO BE MANAGE WELL UNDER HIS LEADRSHIP .

  • PREKESE 9 years ago

    PITY!.OUR LEADERS ARE USELESS.DOES THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH HAS A BUDGET AND WHERE DOES THE MONEY GOES?.IF OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS THE DEATHS OF NEWBORN HAD REMAINED UNCHANGED THAT MEANS WE ARE FAR BEHIND THE MODERN TECHNOLOGY, ...
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  • Ghanaman 9 years ago

    IN reality Ghana can barely care for the people we have now... Until the medial facilities have improved people should use contraception and limit the children they have. What chances could the government of Ghana have provid ...
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  • DASIBREE DWAMENA 9 years ago

    THIS IS A CROOKED ANALYSIS. INDEED IT IS LAME AND UNCORRELATING. IF OTHER GHANAIANS ARE AS IDLE AS YOU ARE TO HAVE CHOSEN TO GO TO HOLLAND TO WASH PLATES INSTEAD STAY IN GHANA TO CONTRIBUTE YOUR QUOTA WHY WOULDNT GHANA AND NI ...
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  • OK 9 years ago

    hmmmmmmm it is very difficult there is a private hospital call Mana Mission Hospital at Nungua Accra that teaches about all this but now because of the NHIS card that is not working all the pregnant women run away looking f ...
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  • Kanawu 9 years ago

    woyome $50m could have saved some of these lives especially in volta region

  • Ra 9 years ago

    Theses are foreign babies pictures, why do some people act as wise and clever people not to promote development in Ghana but out to deceive for their political benefit.
    Ghanaian babies never had such preserved abode in hospi ...
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  • Daniel 9 years ago

    The Health Ministry is responsible for better education for the women, also the hospital workers, especially the nurses and pediatricians. So, why is it so difficult to do it. This culture of neglect is killing new born babie ...
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  • Whatever 9 years ago

    What is accounting for this? These are things the GMA should be focus on rather than jumping from radio station to radio station doing useless politics over money

  • Sefah-Amanquah 9 years ago

    It is sad to learn that a new-born baby dies every fifteen minutes in the country with average population under thirty-million.with these predigious teaching hospitals of Korle-Bu in Accra,Okomfo-Anokkye in Kumase,Cape coast ...
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  • DASIBREE DWAMENA 9 years ago

    CAN UNICEF AND THIS BABY THIEVES OF NURSES LEARN TO TELL THE MOTHERS THE TRUTH. WHEN BABIES ARE SOLD FOR HUMAN SACRIFIES FOR SAKAWA/SIKA DURO THESE THIEVES TURN BACK TO THROW DUST INTO PEOPLES EYES. WHY THIS INCREDIBLE DATA? ...
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  • ADAMU 9 years ago

    WAA LOOK!

    AND GHANA HAS US$600 MILLION TO PAY OUT FRAUDULENT JUDGMENT DEBTS.

    GHANA'S LEADERS MUST BE MARCHED TO THE TESHIE MILITARY RANGE AND SHOT FORM THE LEGS UP EACH DAY UNTIL THEY GIVE UP THE GHOST.

    WICKED CORRUP ...
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  • crorkz 9 years ago

    i4oeAn Great, thanks for sharing this article post.Much thanks again. Great.