{"id":185405,"date":"2016-01-29T06:20:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T06:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=185405"},"modified":"2016-01-29T06:20:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T06:20:42","slug":"arsonist-set-central-medical-stores-on-fire-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=185405","title":{"rendered":"Arsonist set Central Medical stores on fire  &#8211; Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than a year after Ghana&#8217;s\u00a0Central Medical Store was razed to the ground by fire, a report on the incident has confirmed someone deliberately set fire to the facility.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-81934\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Central-Medical-Stores-31.jpg\" alt=\"Central Medical Stores (3)\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Central-Medical-Stores-31.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Central-Medical-Stores-31-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Central Medical Store is where the country\u2019s medical equipment and drugs are stored for onward distribution across the regions.<\/p>\n<p>Over two hundred million cedis worth of drugs and equipment were destroyed in Tema which nearly crippled healthcare delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Before the fire, the then Health Minister Dr. Kwaku Agyeman-Mensah had initiated investigations into allegations of corrupt practices at the store.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-81875\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Central-Medical-Stores-1.jpg\" alt=\"Central Medical Stores 1\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Central-Medical-Stores-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Central-Medical-Stores-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The current Health Minister, Alex Segbefia, says the report when released today [Friday], will give more details about their findings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While we rebuild the new Central Medical Stores, the report of the Central Medical stores will be made public and once that is done, we can give a little bit more light on what&#8217;s happening with the stores.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a year after Ghana&#8217;s\u00a0Central Medical Store was razed to the ground by fire, a report on the incident has confirmed someone deliberately set fire to the facility. &nbsp; The Central Medical Store is where the country\u2019s medical equipment and drugs are stored for onward distribution across the regions. Over two hundred million cedis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}