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Accra, June 11, GNA – Rabito Clinic has organised a free medical screening exercise on skin diseases and general medical care to commemorate Professor Edmund Nminyem Delle’s 40th anniversary of his induction as a Specialist Dermatology.   The exercise was organized by staff of Clinic to honor Prof Delle of the good work and service and achievement in his practice as a dermatologist in 40 years of his career.   Professor Delle said Rabito Clinic, which he established, was name after Prof Cologero Rabito who was a lecturer at the University of Padua, Italy, where he obtained his Doctorate in Medicine and Surgery in 1970.   He said his desire to provide quality and affordable health service for Ghanaians compelled him to form a Health and Human Rights non-governmental organization called “African Commission of Health and Human Rights Promoters”.   Prof Delle said, “As President of the organization, I have been providing medical and humanitarian services to people since its formation and periodically leads a team of medical experts to some prisons in the country to offer free medical and humanitarian services to the prison inmates.”   He said students from Italy, the Netherlands and Germany come to Ghana to attend clinical practical at Rabito Clinic, a place referred to as centre of excellence in the practice of dermatology.   Prof Delle said his contribution to health service in general and specialist care in skin and venereal disease had been recognized both nationally and internationally and the American Academy of Dermatology recently express its appreciation to him for his 25 years of continues membership and support.   “Since my return to Ghana in 1974, I have been able to train some young doctors in dermatology, some of them later specialists in Britain, Italy and Germany and through my assistance and support, some Ghanaian doctors had had the opportunity to receive training on care of torture victims in Copenhagen, Denmark, from International rehabilitation Centre for torture victims, where I also had some training.”   Profile      Prof Edmund Nminyem Delle was born the 18th of November 1943 at Nandom in the Upper West Region (UWR).   He started his formal education at Nandom Primary School in 1949 to 1954 and move to the middle school at Lawra also in the UWR in1995. He joined the Government Secondary School in Tamale from 1957 to 1962 for his General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level (O Level) and Advanced level (A Level).   Prof Delle in 1964 was sponsored by His Eminence Cardinal Peter Poreku Derry to Italy at the University of Padua where he obtained doctorate in Medicine and surgery in 1970 and was awarded a scholarship from Medicus Mundi, an International Organization to study at the Institute of Tropical Medicine at Antwerp, Belgium, where obtained a diploma in tropical medicine in 1971 and was the first Ghanaian doctor to study in the institute.   Prof Delle was appointed a Resident Medical Officer and Lecturer in skin disease at the Padua University in 1972 to 1974, he then return back to Ghana in 1974 to establish the Rabito Clinic which currently have 24 branches dotted throughout the country with over 300 staff.   He is founding member and a National Secretary of the Ghana Society of Dermatologist and Foundation fellow of Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeon in 2005 and was appointed member of the Legal and Ethics Committee of the Ghana AIDS Commission.   Prof Delle spearheaded the formation of African Association of Dermatologist and become the Vice-President, later, he become the Secretary General form 1991 to 1997.   He is a member of the British Association of Dermatologist, which had elected him as honorary foreign member, Fellow American Academy 1986 and a commissioner for International Commission for Health Professional in 1989 and voted man of the year in 2000 by the American Biographical Center and awarded him a Prestigious Marie Award in 2006.   Prof Delle was a founding member and first National Secretary of the Ghana Society of Dermatologist and has served as Chairman of Board of Directors of the Standard Magazine and Newspapers Limited from 1976 to 1999.   He has also served as Secretary of Catholic Doctors Guilds of Ghana since 1984 and was able to organize the first Pan-African Congress of Catholic Doctors in Ghana 1984.   Prof Delle won a landslide victory to become the Chairman of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP) in 2003 and has, with the support of the Ministry of Health started a programme for the “One Day Stop Cervical Cancer Project and currently an adjunct Professor of Dermatology at the University for Development Studies (UDS).   He is the Board Chairman of Catholic Center for Hope for the aged, the sick and the needy in society. He Speaks French, English, Italian and a Hausa and has served on numerous Boards in the country, and married with five children. He enjoys reading and gardening.              GNA...

Ghana must demand more favourable terms from future oil contracts now that its vast resource potential has been proven, and with one-and-a-half yearÂ’s experience in production, according to Prof. John Asafu-Adjaye, a senior fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA).

Accra, July 10, GNA - The British Government in collaboration with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will on Wednesday July 11th hold a major international conference in London on contraception to refocus attention on the issue.   The Gates Foundation and the British Government whilst pressing the issue, are expected to pledge about 4 billion dollars to provide family planning services to 120 million women from the world’s poorest countries over the next eight years.   A new study conducted by researchers at John Hopkins University shows that fulfilling unmet contraception demand by women in developing countries could reduce global maternal mortality by nearly a third, a potentially great improvement for one of the world’s most vulnerable populations.   The study, published on Tuesday in The Lancet, a British science journal, prior to the major family planning conference in London, is an attempt to refocus attention on the issue.   The study indicated that the proportion of international population assistance funds that went to family planning fell to just six percent in 2008, down from 55 percent in 1995, while spending on H.I.V and AIDS represented 74 percent of the total in 2008, up from just 9 percent in 1995.   The Lancet study, which the Gates Foundation financed, draws on maternal mortality and survey data from the United Nations and World Health Organization to estimate the annual number of maternal deaths in 172 countries and the share that could be preventable by the use of contraception.   Birth control reduces health risks, the researchers said, by delaying first pregnancies, which carry higher risks in very young women; cutting down on unsafe abortions, which account for 13 percent of all maternal deaths in developing countries; and controlling dangers associated with pregnancies that are too closely spaced.   The authors of the Lancet study, researchers at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins, found that the number of maternal deaths in those countries in 2008 would have nearly doubled without contraception.   They acknowledged that maternal mortality record-keeping was weak in developing countries, a limitation of the study. They also found that an additional 29 percent of the deaths could have been prevented if women who wanted birth control would have received it, a concept called unmet need that is estimated using surveys of mothers in developing countries.   Population experts warn that developing countries, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa, where fertility continues to be high and shortages of food and water are worsening, will face deteriorating conditions if family sizes do not shrink”.   The issue of family planning is burdened in the United States, where government assistance often gets caught up in political battles. Contraception has again become controversial this political season, though the United States remains a major donor.   According to Gary Darmstadt, Director of Family Health at the Gates Foundation, “We hear time and again from women out in the field that they want the ability to plan their families. We felt we needed to shine a light back onto the importance of this issue and get the conversation going.”   Maternal deaths have declined dramatically since 1990, down by a third, according to the World Health Organization. But about 16 percent of the world’s population lives in countries where fertility is still more than four children per woman.   The lack of birth control in poor countries has become an important issue for Melinda Gates, who argued in highly personal remarks in April that birth control should not be controversial, because it improves women’s lives.   GNA ...

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Accra, July 10, GNA - This year’s seminar series of the Food and Agricultural Show (FAGRO) is aimed to advocate measures to address weaknesses in Ghana’s agricultural value chain process.   The fourth edition of Ghana’s only Agric Expo, dubbed: "FAGRO 2012", is an international exhibition and conference designed specifically for agricultural stakeholders, entrepreneurs, students, market women, NGOs, and various agric trade associations.   This year's event, which is on the theme: “Linking farmers to the appropriate market: a value chain process”, is scheduled for August 25 to 27, 2012 at the Efua Sutherland Children’s Park in Accra.   Mr. Sulley Adam, Chairman of FAGRO, said the event would help to establish and maintain a value chain process that has the farmer at heart.     He said it would also provide alternative measures in ensuring that all actors in the agric sector fully benefit from their hard work with a clear cut plan on how they could practicalize the knowledge they acquire and work with it effectively.   He added that this year’s free seminar series along with the main exhibition had been crafted with the needs of the smallholder farmer in mind, adding that issues of women participation in agric, farmers’ access to funds, fertilizer accessibility and efficient use, the role of farming organizations in linking Farmers’ to markets would be thoroughly debated by Farmer Based Groups, policy makers and NGOs.   “A 3-day seminar linked to the theme will run free of charge by experts drawn from various agric professions. The idea is to empower participants with requisite information and skills to improve the performance of their business from financing to marketing,” he emphasized.   Also given lots of attention at this year’s event is the utilization of Information Communication Technology in agri-business.   Mr Adam defined value chain system simply as the stages of agricultural production, which includes the acquisition of land, preparing and cultivation of crops, harvesting, storage, processing and marketing and warned that no policy on agriculture in the country would be successful if it failed to address all the aforementioned stages efficiently.   FAGRO for the next five (5) years will focus on the value chain process; by linking farmers to the appropriate markets, with the hope of creating a commercial platform, where growers come into direct contact with the other actors in the value chain process.     At the end of the day, they get to know who to contact, where to purchase or acquire the “appropriate machinery” and when to engage an “expert” service provider to help improve their farming operations.   FAGRO, an initiative of Infocus PR, has over the years created opportunities for local and international actors in agriculture to find a common platform to form strategic partnerships that have helped them in expanding their businesses.   It has also opened up Ghana’s agricultural potentials to investors who wish to better understand the dynamics and resource potentials of the country and how best to take advantage of them.   In addition, FAGRO has provided the platform for participating companies and institutions to receive valuable feedback from their potential and existing clients so as to help them re-strategize for the future.    GNA...

LOMEX CONSTRUCTION, a construction firm, has had its contract with the Ministry of Roads and Highways terminated as a result of its ineffectiveness, according to the sector Minister Joseph Gidisu.