Normal activities resume at Ministries

Workers at the ministries are performing their normal duties after the Christmas and New Year holidays as parking spaces at the ministries were filled with cars, while workers attended to their usual duties, during a survey by the Ghana News Agency.

At the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), Mr. Frank Siaw-Otu, Public Relations Officer, said "we at MOFA are simply still on course.”

“We are working towards our Medium Term Agriculture sector Investment Plan (METASIP) and all other programs that would contribute towards food security, such as the Youth in Agriculture program.”

He said, "We are focused on pursuing our programs to ensure that we are food secure, and could also export food products."

Mr. Siaw-Otu said as Ghanaians, "we alone can best develop our country. We need to be committed to achieve the needed accelerated growth. We need to encourage ourselves, criticize constructively, be optimistic with our aims, and we would be successful."

At the Ministry of Health, Mr. Dan Osman Mwin, Head of Public Relations, said key among the Millennium Development Goals was the drastic reduction of child and maternity mortality by 2015.

He said it was important for all in the health sector workers to come together "for us to achieve these goals".

Mr. Mwin said he was also of the hope that industrial peace would be achieved within the health sector.

"We aim to settle grievances of health workers, concerning remuneration," he said adding that infrastructural development within the health sector also needed to be looked at.

Mr. Mwin also expressed the hope that with the creation of new districts, new health centers would also be built to cater for new health needs.