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Ghana News: Hospitals symbolic of the ill who visit
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Korle Bu Hospital in Accra
ACCRA, 16 Nov 2006 (IRIN) - The third floor of the maternity block of Korle Bu Hospital is eerily quiet except for an occasional drip from a broken pipe. One woman ready to give birth is propped up on a stretcher next to a wet, moldy wall. Another groans while awaiting a caesarian as water pools beneath her bed. She looks up as a visitor passes and says, “I cannot stand the stench.”
Welcome to Ghana's leading state-run teaching and referral hospital, built in 1923 and once West Africa’s most prestigious medical complex. It is built on an area the size of five football fields. There are 16 specialised departments and diagnostic centers, plus various wards with a total of 1,600 beds.
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Ghana News: Increased penalties for female genital cutting proposed
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Fefe Dari was jailed for five years for performing female genital excision.
ACCRA, 5 Sep 2006 (IRIN) - When 45-year-old farmer Fefe Dari decided to perform genital excision on three girls in 2003, with the consent of their parents, little did she know that the tradition would land her a five-year jail sentence.
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Ghana News: A victory for the disabled after 13-year struggle
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Disabled workers at a chalk factory in Ghana.
ACCRA, 7 Aug 2006 (IRIN) - As cars send up clouds of smog and workers bustle their way through one of the main junctions in Ghana’s capital Accra, the blind, crippled and maimed raise their hands for coins.
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Ghana News: Reparations for victims of human rights abuses
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ACCRA, 17 Oct 2006 (IRIN) - The administration of President John Kufuor has begun paying reparations to about 2,000 Ghanaians who suffered human rights abuses under former governments.
Individual payments, which began on Monday, range from about US $217 to US $3,300 depending on the extent of abuse or violation, according to the attorney general’s office.
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Ghana News: Rural Ghanaians to benefit from Millennium aid
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The Millenium aid may help Ghanaian farmers get their produce to market
ACCRA, 8 Aug 2006 (IRIN) - More than one million rural Ghanaians are set to benefit from a US $547 million grant from the United States because the government of Ghana made good on a pledge to improve civil liberties and economic freedom.
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