{"id":185408,"date":"2016-01-29T06:31:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T06:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=185408"},"modified":"2016-01-29T06:31:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T06:31:08","slug":"govt-to-release-cms-fire-report-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=185408","title":{"rendered":"Gov&#8217;t to release CMS fire report today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government will on Friday release its official position on the investigations into the fire that gutted the Central Medical Stores in Tema.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General &amp; Minister for Justice, Marietta Brew Appiah-Opong, will issue the government statement following the approval of President John Dramani Mahama.<\/p>\n<p>The investigative report into the fire which occurred in January last year states among others that the fire was a case of arson.<\/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>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Flagstaff House<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government will on Friday release its official position on the investigations into the fire that gutted the Central Medical Stores in Tema. Attorney General &amp; Minister for Justice, Marietta Brew Appiah-Opong, will issue the government statement following the approval of President John Dramani Mahama. The investigative report into the fire which occurred in January last [&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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185408","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=185408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}