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Newly commissioned Ridge Hospital closed down

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  • Tamara 6 years ago

    No problem. Konkonsa NDC empty heads should go ahead and gossip.

  • AGBESI KWESI 6 years ago

    NPP is too good. They don't do things for nothing.

  • Rastee 6 years ago

    Ridge hospital is NDC project; why crediting NPP?

  • TT 6 years ago

    WHY ALL THESE MARCHO SPEECH

  • Smart Frempah Uk 6 years ago

    Rastee, are you ok? Did the NDC government use their own money to build the hospital? Apart from the fact that the NDC super inflated the costs, it's the tax payers money that was used. I don't really know how some Ghanaian ...
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  • Kojo 6 years ago

    I think you don't have brains, has NDC got a project in this country? No wonder u support them

  • Sundiata 6 years ago

    And l thought rasta should knows better??
    How can it belong to NDC when they just renovated it,did they buy it before renovation???

  • As3m 6 years ago

    NDC do not have a project. The government is paying for it.
    If it's NDC's project, let them pay for it.

  • TT 6 years ago

    MONARCHY GOVERMENT

  • ABBA ATTA 6 years ago

    IT IS ONLY A DUDE HEAD LIKE YOU WHO WOULD THINK SO, WHAT NPP IS DOING IS THREATHENING THE VERY FOUNDATION OF OUR DEMOCRACY, IT IS A RECIPE FOR A COUP, IN ANY CASE DO YOU THINK NPP WILL BE IN POWER FOREVER, FOOLISH!

  • AGBESI KWESI 6 years ago

    That would have been the end of you and your people.

  • Citizen 6 years ago

    What are you waiting for? Stage you coup now. Who's stopping you?

  • Agyenim Boateng 6 years ago

    Idiot is your entire generation who are empty headed. Foolish ????. You don't have morals and manners. Common sense is not common to all.

  • Smart Frempah Uk 6 years ago

    What is there to hide Minister? Please be clear. Ghanaians want to know why he is sacked. Your words are bullish. In this day and age and with the government of the NPP who have such majority, please be transparent. That ...
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  • OTIKO 6 years ago

    THESE NPP AND THEIR EVIL NANA WANT NOTHING GOOD FOR THESE COUNTRY. NPP AND MEMBERS FROM GENERATION ARE ROBOTIZED FOR GHANA AND WONT GET GHANA ANY PROGRESS.

  • Ed 6 years ago

    You are not making any sense here. Get the hell out of wrting here

  • Bobobribri 6 years ago

    Ghana dont need incompetent galore to rule Ghana. It has suffered a setback as far as 50 yrs under INCOMPETENT NDC.

  • Adjah 6 years ago

    I hope sick people are not deprived care due to some director nonsense. Is there no security at the hospital? If you don't want an individual in certain section of the building then advise security accordingly. One director c ...
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  • GaBaa 6 years ago

    The hospital in question has not been opened yet. There are no machines in there

  • NPPigs 6 years ago

    why fighting with nurses and now a common medical director. where is the transfer let? lying minister!!!

  • Luther King 6 years ago

    the minister messed up and shd stop talking rubbish. ghana did not start in 2017. if you did not employ him how did he get there to work? it is important the minister gets things right. if u are a consultant with a teaching ...
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  • Serwaah 6 years ago

    And the Minister is telling Anaba that we no longer need you for any consultancy, the project is completed, so go back to your former job. It will be a waste of money to retain him. Oh Ama Ghana, when are we going to stop fi ...
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  • Jeeze 6 years ago

    Idiot minister. Dr Anaba has to sue these guys. If they want to sack him, they should pay him the remainder of his contract which ends in 2022. Full pay.

  • asie baby 6 years ago

    Ghana is now been governed and ruled by NPP so no ndc member take active position same thing happened when ndc came to power dont forget so easily ok

  • Adjah 6 years ago

    I agree that how he gets paid doesn't matter at this point, however if the minister of health is responsible for all government hospitals then the director position falls under the minister so he has the upper hand on who he ...
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  • Serwaah 6 years ago

    Why was he collecting paychecks from both the Ridge Hospital and University.

  • Dada 6 years ago

    its all lies

  • Jirapa 6 years ago

    "I transferred him because he is no longer useful for me to manage the new facility"...Mr Agyeman-Manu, is the hospital your property? Was it renovated by your elephant party ? Are you so arrogant to say that he is no longer ...
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  • asie baby 6 years ago

    a fool just like you my dear, dont forget that in Ghana if ur party is not in power the ruling party take over everything including all offices so why are u behaving as if you are new in Ghana

  • Bobobribri 6 years ago

    IS A MEDICAL DIRECTOR COMMON? IS ONLY NDC WHO CAN APPOINT COMMON DR TO DIRECTORSHIP. NO WONDER HE IS BRANDED INCOMPETENT. ACTUALLY THE PRESIDENT WAS INCOMPETENT AND IT WAS CONFIRMED BY GHANAIANS. THE DEAD GOAT STATED TO REBUT ...
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  • Bbb 6 years ago

    Mahama placed you there seek explanation from him..

  • Bobobribri 6 years ago

    MAHAMA WAS INCOMPETENT AND WAS APPOINTING INCOMPETENT PEOPLE INTO POSITION OF COMPETENCY. THOSE WHO DONT MEET THE STATUS WILL BE REMOVED FROM POSITIONS PERIOD. THANKS YOU CONFIRM THAT MAHAMA PUT HIM THERE.

  • Law 6 years ago

    let us sack the NDC bigots and clean the area and open the hospital. NDC fools can shout and somersault in hell.

  • Suwebatu, London 6 years ago

    Ok, so NDC is next in power, they'll sack all NPP personnel eh? What a great Ghana we have. Progress will continue to be a dream never actually realized with this kind of mentality. Smh

  • Pluak 6 years ago

    YOU WILL NEVER DEVELOP DUE TO YOUR GTEED, IGNORANCE AND STUPIDITY! NANA ADDO AND HIS ASHANTES ARE THE LEAST INTELLIGENT AND MOST STUPID GOVERNMENT EVRR TO GRACE THE SOILS OF GHANA! THEY CLAIM THEY WILL VHANGE GHANA BUT WITH ...
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  • TK 6 years ago

    The minister is just anything, how can a minister talk in this way that he was employed by NDC so they don't need him.Was the hospital not built by ndc? Ghana for you.

  • Bobobribri 6 years ago

    NO REMOVE THE INCOMPETENT ONES. NDC HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT THEY HAVE A LOT OF THEM IN THEIR PARTY. THEY PRODUCED INCOMPETENT PRESIDENT AND VICE WHO COULD NOT RESPOND TO BAWUMIA.

  • nii nuertey abladey 6 years ago

    Ghanaians are watching.which court is the minister referring to? ist the npp courts or?

  • KOFI NTIM 6 years ago

    WHAT A COUNTRY OF BACKWARD, STUPID FOOLS? THE ONLY THING THEY KNOW IS CORRUPTION. TWEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

  • Suwebatu, London 6 years ago

    I agree 100%. Ridiculous country

  • BA 6 years ago

    hhhmmm....This is not easy. Does minister employer Health Directors or The Health Council does.

    How may days does it take to vacate a post.

  • hmmm 6 years ago

    shame on the gov playing politics with peoples health, Mahama appointed him so what,

  • Serwaah 6 years ago

    It's not about politics, it's protecting the public purse.

  • Kanawu 6 years ago

    protecting public purse indeed. with 110 ministers,Nominees to MMDCES bribing Assembly members to confirm them ? corruption at its hike

  • Suwebatu, London 6 years ago

    Serwah are you joking? Protecting the public purse? Had Mahama won and appointed 100 ministers, what would have been your opinion? Seriously gobsmacked with your thinking.

  • Toogb3 6 years ago

    mahama can't make use f a single human being apart from getting people who are corrupt. How could he have made productive use of 110 ministers. Akufo Addo us a serious President who knows what he is doing. He knows where he h ...
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  • Pluak 6 years ago

    NANA ADDO AND HIS NATION OF RELATIVES AND FRIEND WILL DEND GHANA BACK 23 YEARS! HE HAS A THIRD CLASS DEGREE HE IS THEREFORE NOT QUALIFIED FOR THE POSITION HE HOLDS! AT THE CLOSR OF 2016, A SATANIC YEAR, WEVE WITHNESS AN U ...
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  • Bobobribri 6 years ago

    SO WE DONT WANT INCOMPETENT MAHAMA AND HIS FOOLS TO BURN MEDICAL DRUG FACILITY. HOW MUCH DID IT COST GHANA SHORT MEMORY PEOPLE.

  • kk 6 years ago

    A useless Minister!!!THE ONLY THING THEY KNOW IS ARROGANTLY SHOWING PEOPLE WHERE POWER LIES WHILE INOCENT PEOPLE ARE DYING.PLAY NO POLITICS WITH THE HEALTH OF THE PEOPLE:FOOOOOOLS

  • Serwaah 6 years ago

    Mahama arrogantly hired people of Northern extraction needlessly just to satisfy his whims. He did not care about. financial wastage of the public. We voted for Nana for change,so be it.

  • Suwebatu, London 6 years ago

    Nana's term will also come to pass. I pray we are all around to see when NPP officials also start getting fired. Oh we are going to have a wonderful country aren't we? Bring it on.

  • Jo Alaa 6 years ago

    The utterances of the foolish minister of health is uncalled for. He should seek wise counsel from wise men and stop his nonsense

  • KASford. 6 years ago

    All the people ranting here should shut the fuck up!! He who lives by the sword will definitely die by the sword. Anaba 's appointment was a political one and was riddled with controversy. He must go the same way he came in! ...
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  • Jaylou 6 years ago

    Minister is useless. You don't treat people this way. He listens to fake reports about people and goes ahead to dismiss them. Amazing incompetence. Anaba stand firm.

  • kweku 6 years ago

    did i hr de minister saying de hospital is for them ? he n hu?. dis old man sick. ridge new hospital facility ketesi mahama

  • Yaa Nkosuo 6 years ago

    NOW, Mr Agyeman-Manu is being civil.
    Explaining issues like this is more civilized but to accuse someone of "not possessing managerial skills" is uncalled for and disgusting.

  • Serwaah 6 years ago

    He is cutting down the unnecessary waste in the system.

  • Suwebatu, London 6 years ago

    Then he should start by telling his leader to reduce the number of ministers he has. Period

  • Paileta 6 years ago

    I believe you are one of those lunatic patience who discharge themselves from secured mental facilities because they think they are well enough and you stop taking your medication! Tell your npp to start the down sizing by re ...
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  • ogyam 6 years ago

    Nana Addo civilization kwasiafor in power

  • kokofi 6 years ago

    It is huge disgrace for a minister to be using uncouth words in public. Someone should tell him as a minister paid by the tax payer, it is better to jaw-jaw with the said Dr Anaba behind closed door rather than showing "where ...
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  • razak seini 6 years ago

    Very well mr minister... U r in for a long legal fight. Ur utterances have undertone of ethnic disdain. How do u explain this phrase"We r taking back our hospital' This is not a banana republic

  • Alhasan Iddrisu 6 years ago

    Mr Minister,Dr Anaba is also a Ghanaian. You cannot say you don't need him and that he should go back to UDS. Ghana is older than you and you would go and leave it.

  • John Ghanaba 6 years ago

    The hospital should not be closed at the expense of patients due to the squabble over the medical director.the security services should get him out at once and the new medical head and team put in place at to start work.th ...
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  • HONEST MAN 6 years ago

    THE GMA IS SILENT IN THIS CASE, HAVE THEY JUST WOKEN UP FROM SLEEP OR WHAT,YOUR MEMBER DOCTOR IS IN TROUBLE AND YOU ARE QUIET ALL THIS TIME. WHAT IS YOUR POSITION ON THIS?, YOU ARE DEFENDING YOUR COLLEAGUE DOCTOR. LEST HEAR F ...
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  • stateman 6 years ago

    So the whole hospital has been closed down due to Mr Anaba Thomas.NPP what are you doing to the patience who patronice the facility?

  • Ari 6 years ago

    Because he is a northerner, we northerners must rise up against this stupid things

  • WHO JAH BLESS,AWAL BARBER COOPPER SAL 6 years ago

    Serwa if its abt protecting the public purse why dont nana cut down elephant size ministers

  • Joe Lartey 6 years ago

    Ghana is losing it to political parties,Ghanaians should let the Institutions work on their own and way,political parties must not involve themselves in the institutional appointments,too many changes after change in governme ...
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  • ogyam 6 years ago

    Mr many is gradually loosing the respect he commands . pls don't follow the wicked Nana Addo be the gentle person u are known to be

  • dunaa 6 years ago

    IF This Anaba has a written employment contract, then the contract must be followed. IF he has no written contract, then he serves in his position at the will of the government. The government can fire him for cause or for no ...
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  • DARROLL 6 years ago

    Hahahaaa, did I hear the minister posit that there are laws in this country? Well, maybe somebody should remind the minister that, indeed if there were, the so-called delta forces will be jail by now.

  • Edward 6 years ago

    This minister sounds too arrogant. How dare you use the words" his services is no longer useful for me" Do you own the state/ministry or you think it is your private hospital to pronounce this nonesense. Bush man learn how to ...
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  • Baba Alhaji de Nima 6 years ago

    Incompetency is endemic in Ghana. Sorry for Ghanaians. It is entirely possible for a hospital to go on functioning in the absence of its director. Our leaders simply do not have the welfare of Ghanaians at heart. They are ...
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  • Komfo kesi3 6 years ago

    Why would this blockheaded imp accept gleefully to replace his predecessor but now refuse to be replaced! John Mahama and his uncivilised methodology of narrowing the gap between the north and south is the result of such char ...
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  • Ato 6 years ago

    NPp, comedy of errors. Sub standard govt. The facility is not ready why the rush. AA is in a hurry but that hurry is leading no where than doom

  • Concern citizen 6 years ago

    This minister is speaking like a small boy. Why talking as if the hospital is your property. That belongs to the state and don't for get you are a politician you can also be removed at anytime. Whether you appointed him or no ...
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  • FREE EDUCATION 6 years ago

    eba ne yor. international competence at it's best by the npp and its competent men.

  • Rash 6 years ago

    poor journalism! what is national intensive unit??? plz get ur facts right before u publish samfn for the public!!! NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT!!!!

  • Ghanaba 6 years ago

    Governance is missing from Ghana. Ministers talk by heart, the president is just sleeping, no commonsense is applied to anything.
    Everyday, one nonsense news to another.

  • Kwame 6 years ago

    why reap where you have not sow; if you want to appoint your cronies, wait till your gov't starts building new hospitals.
    “I transferred him because he is no longer useful for me to manage the new facility… he can neve ...
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  • Kyeretwie 6 years ago

    The,most useless and incompetent minister,so far

  • kweku 6 years ago

    why rush to open it

  • Ghanaman 6 years ago

    This idiot Anaba....is he a medical doctor of what? He should fucking get his ass off that place for the folks to seek medicare there. An ass hole like that should not mess with NPP>

  • NPPigs 6 years ago

    NPP'S TRIBAL POLITICS WILL DESTROY GHANA

  • Calpuchino De Pablo Miles Montego 6 years ago

    This is what our founder said some time ago and u people insulted him saying father for all is De best thing ever, next time if u come to power try doing father for all again and live the people who voted for u out. Nonsense ...
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  • kofi 6 years ago

    SAME AS ASUTSUARE DO NOT WORRY

  • USA NANA 6 years ago

    No sense in your argument come again you seems to be grown man but no sense in your dealings give tangible reasons.Do you think the hospital and Ghana belongs to you and NPP? by saying OUR

  • simon 6 years ago

    HMMM NDC MP DOYOE KUDJO GHANSA AND THE IMMEDIATE PAST DCE UNDER MAHAMA ADMINISTRATION HIJACK THE CAMPAIGN FROM THE NPP. QUESTION WHAT IS THEIR INTEREST AND WHAT DUBIOUS DEAL DO THEY WANT TO HIDE OR COVER HMMMMM

  • Nii King 6 years ago

    shame who said you're also useful to the ministry of health.I thank God for not entrusting the judgment day into hands of men.God is watching

  • TJ 6 years ago

    NICU is not an abbreviation for "national intensive care unit." It stands for "neo-natal intensive care unit." "Neo-natal" means "new-born," so a NICU in a hospital is for severely ill infants. Why can't Ghanaian journalists ...
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  • vivian 6 years ago

    HMMMMMM HOW COME AN NDC MP OF ADA AND THE RECENT PAST DCE OF ADA AND ALMOST ALL NDC BIG MEN IN ADA EAST DISTRICT ARE CAMPAIGNING FOR THE PRESIDENT'S NOMINEE?? WHAT IS THEIR INTEREST AT ALL. ANY FEARS??? ANY DUBIOUS DEAL THAT ...
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  • Emma 6 years ago

    That is a lie. Kufour started it before leaving office.

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  • Dr Poku 6 years ago

    This is really senseless health minister for the nation!

  • ksp 6 years ago

    Please it's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit(NICU) and not national intensive care unit

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  • Ataa Nii 6 years ago

    The Minister wants the good Doctor out of the place because they, NPP guys, already have one of their own waiting on the sidelines to take up that job. WINNER TAKES ALL is the name of the game! I'm very sad.

  • Kuma 6 years ago

    HERE WE GO 'we will take over our place' . Ridge was built by this HM

  • Isahaku 6 years ago

    He is the minister he can fire Anaba. Anaba can cry blood hell, still he'll go. Hehehe
    Power sweet papa. This doesn't need soldiers. Just two unarmed security men. Finish. When someone was kicked out you thought tomorrow ...
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  • Ernest 6 years ago

    You must be an adolescent; doing same old political stuffs do not bring dev to any society.

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