Day: December 10, 2023

The Western North Regional Office of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has embarked on a roadshow on the principal streets of Sefwi-Wiawso to educate members of the public on a new mobile application dubbed: ‘MyNHIS App’.

The App was developed by the Scheme to make access to NHIS services easier and convenient for clients.

Mr Kofi Asare Baffour, Western North Regional Director of the NHIS, said during the event that the Application was meant to afford members of the public convenient ways of registering and renewing their cards without going through any stress at the NHIS offices.

He said all they needed was their Ghana card to log onto the app after downloading it on their smartphones.

He said the app had user-friendly features, and, therefore, encouraged members of the public to ensure they downloaded the MyNHIS mobile application on their smartphones for easy access to NHIS services at their own comforts.

Source: Ghana News Agency

The Western Region branch of the Christian Council of churches has held its?annual festival of nine lessons and carols at the Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic cathedral in Takoradi.

The well-attended event was graced by AME Zion, First Baptist, Bethel Methodist, Airforce Methodist-Presby, Salvation Army, All Saints Anglican church, and Mozama Church International.

All the churches in attendance came with their choir and singing bands, which filled the air with?melodious Christmas songs and other gospel songs interspersed with bible readings.

Reverend Opoku Sampson from the Bethel Methodist church in a Christmas message Dubbed ‘The?greatest announcement from Heaven’, said Christmas should be a period of sober reflection on the love?God has for mankind.

He asked Christians to be prepared to receive Christ and allow him to take charge of their lives and?reminded the faithful of the need to amend their ways, live in peace with one another to inherit the?kingdom of God

‘As we sing, let’s reflect on what Jes
us Christ stood for and exhibit his attributes’ ?

He said Christians should let the joy the Shepherds experienced when the angel announced the birth of?Jesus reflect in their lives, work, and marriages as they celebrate the birth of Jesus.

Rev. Opoku pointed out that Christmas should not only be for merry-making but also a period for peace and?reconciliation among families and communities.

He `entreated all to trust in the lord because in him is protection, peace, joy and fruitfulness

He said Christians should use the yuletide to show love to the less privileged since they are also created?in the image of God and could be used by God for his work.

‘Do not undermine anyone for all are created in the image and likeness of God.’

Mrs Anastasia Williams guest of honour at the event, appreciated the choristers for entertaining the?congregation with the melodious songs and prayed that God continued to bless them. ?

Reverend Fr Lawrence Krah, the Our Lady Star of Sea Catholic Cathedral administrator, thanked a
ll who?graced the occasion and promised a wonderful celebration next year.

The festival of Nine Lessons and Carols is mostly celebrated by Christians on Christmas Eve where they?sing Christmas carols, hymns and choir anthems to remember and celebrate the birth of Jesus.

Source: Ghana News Agency

Ghana Health Service (GHS), in partnership with Ghana Education Service (GES) and others, has commenced the Adolescent Health Advocacy Week with students at Krobo-Odumase.

Students selected from Odumase Presbyterian and Anglican JHS, and Talented Academy, took part in a forum to educate adolescents on issues related to their transition from Adolescence to adulthood as part of the Advocacy and campaign.

Adolescence is a critical period of development characterized by rapid physical, emotional and cognitive changes and its impact is dependent on the health and social services available and accessible to the adolescent.

Against this background, the family health division of the GHS commemorates the annual Adolescent Health Advocacy Week to campaign for an inclusive society, which meets the sexual and reproductive health, nutrition and mental health as well as social developmental needs of the Adolescent.

Madam Ellen Darkoa Asare, Deputy Director of Nursing Services, Eastern Region, said during the adolescen
t stage, young people and students, especially go through academic challenges, due to peer pressure and physical changes of the body.

That, she noted, called for better health systems that responded to that unique health and social development needs of the Adolescents as they transitioned to adulthood for a healthier and more inclusive future for young people.

She said that explained collaboration with the GES to ensure that as educators and mentors, who played vital roles in providing the right guidance and support, the schools became an environment where students feel safe, understood, and encouraged to make healthy choices.

Mr Godfried Ofoe Caesar, Eastern Regional School Health Education Programme (SHEP) Coordinator, said to address the challenges of that period in students, the GES had integrated Adolescent Reproductive Health issues across subjects in the curriculum from the basic level through to the SHS to provide knowledge, skills and attitudes they required to cope.

He mentioned the formation of
school health clubs and mentorship programmes as some of the interventions put in place to improve behaviour change among Adolescents.

The SHEP Coordinator noted that parents also had a critical role to play in ensuring that Adolescents transitioned safely into adulthood and urged them to step up their roles and deepen communication with their wards.

Madam Henrietta Ataa Kaakyire, Project Assistant, MSI Reproductive Choices Ghana, provided reproductive health choices to women and girls and encouraged young people to make right choices for better outcomes.

Source: Ghana News Agency

The Tobinco Group of Companies has held its Annual Thanksgiving Service at the Pentecost International Worship Center (PIWC) in Takoradi in appreciation of God’s goodness and mercies throughout the year.

This year’s thanksgiving service also marks 10 years of some challenges the group encountered, including persecutions to the point of collapse, but for the Lord’s intervention.

Pastor Emmanuel Ayirebi, the Head Chaplain for the Group, who led the team in service, said the thanksgiving would be celebrated throughout the country and climaxed in Accra.

Pastor Ayirebi, also the Resident Minister of the Kaneshie branch of the PIWC, read Psalm 31:20.

‘You hide them in the safety of your presence from the plots of others; in a safe shelter you hide them from the insults of their enemies’.

Elder Novieku Terkpetey, who shared the sermon, on the topic: ‘No Excuse is Enough’, said that servants were custodians of what had been entrusted to them.

He pointed out that Christians had no defence for not living up to G
od’s standard because He has given to all that pertains to life.

‘Satan gives wealth but true wealth comes from God without calamities,’ he said.

Elder Terkpetey, therefore, admonished Christians to allow God to be the source of their wealth.

He encouraged the children of God to let their private and public lives be pleasing to God and should not have double standards.

He contended that though Job lived as a man with all the feelings and limitations of man, he lived with integrity and pleased God.

‘We can, therefore, as men and women with limitations live as Job did devoting ourselves to godly principles and the fear of God’, he stressed.

Elder Terkpetey called on Christians to strive to walk in integrity and trustworthiness to affect others with their exemplary lives and make Ghana and the world a better place.

He urged them to fear God irrespective of what happened in their lives, whether bad or good.

Source: Ghana News Agency