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COLUMNIST: JOSHUA OKYERE

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World Patient Safety Day: Ghana cannot afford unsafe care for people living with NCDs

Sep 17, 2026 | Feature Article

As noncommunicable diseases become a bigger threat, patient safety must become central to how Ghana delivers chronic car ...

Apr 14, 2026 | Feature Article

Ghana rsquo;s rollout of a national free primary healthcare policy marks one of the most consequential health system ref ...

Feb 25, 2026 | Feature Article

The tragic death of a young man (Charles Amissah) who was reportedly turned away from multiple hospitals, including the ...

Feb 7, 2026 | Feature Article

In contemporary Ghanaian social discourse, particularly on social media and in informal peer conversations, a troubling ...

Feb 5, 2026 | Feature Article

World Cancer Day 2026 is marked under the theme United by Unique. It is a powerful idea; one that recognis ...

Jan 17, 2026 | Feature Article

Every weekday morning in Ghana rsquo;s major cities, millions of citizens wake up early, not to be productive, but to su ...

Jan 3, 2026 | Feature Article

The proposal by Ghana rsquo;s Constitutional Review Committee to bar Members of Parliament from serving as ministers has ...

Mar 13, 2025 | Feature Article

Today, March 13, 2025, the world observes World Kidney Day, a global initiative dedicated to raising awareness about the ...

Mar 4, 2025 | Feature Article

In Ghana, as in many parts of the world, the discourse surrounding body weight is fraught with judgment, stereotypes, an ...

Aug 10, 2023 | Feature Article

Sub-Saharan Africa faces a pressing health issue as a new study sheds light on a concerning link between unclean cooking ...

May 28, 2021 | Feature Article

Since the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Ghana has committed tireless efforts to ...

May 8, 2021 | Feature Article

Regardless of who you are or what you do for a living, doesn rsquo;t discriminate hellip; The key ...

Mar 6, 2021 | Feature Article

The 6th of March is a special day for all Ghanaians living in Ghana, and in the diaspora. As a matter of ...

Feb 16, 2021 | Feature Article

All over the world, the incidence of childhood cancer is increasing astronomically. This is a worrying public health ...

Feb 5, 2021 | Feature Article

Cancer, like other chronic diseases is an increasing public health concern. In 2018, about 9.8 million people died o ...

Oct 25, 2020 | Feature Article

In recent times, I have been thinking a lot about the blogging industry in Ghana. A conduit for the transmission of ...

Oct 11, 2020 | Feature Article

Ever since the world met for the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, there has been some significant improv ...

Joshua Okyere
Joshua Okyere

This Author has published 45 articles on modernghana.com