Citi Business News<\/strong> President of the American Chamber of Commerce Ghana Philippe Ayivor said American companies are ready to support and collaborate with Ghana in the fight against Ebola.<\/p>\n\u201cWe are willing and we are able to support but as to whether we will be able to support the government in all the request they are making that the Chamber will discuss with its members to deal with that. I will want to just make it clear that American companies are ever ready to help the government of Ghana to fight the Ebola menace.\u201d<\/p>\n
Companies like Coca cola, Newmont and Price Water House Coppers gave presentations on what they are doing in their own small way to educate their staff and the communities they operate in which they say has gone well so far.<\/p>\n
The US Ambassador to Ghan, Gene Cretz said the US government is committed to helping Ghana through advocacy, training and education in fighting the disease.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Mr Gene A. Cretz, said the US recognises Ghana\u2019s leadership role in the ECOWAS region, both as a good neighbour in times of others\u2019 needs and as a hub for humanitarian and UN operations on Ebola control.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have already committed 1.7million dollars in AID money; we\u2019ve had the CDC here who has engaged in several days of training to help Ghana identify what its strengths and potential weaknesses are. we will continue to work with the UN here in Ghana to make sure the country is prepared to deal with Ebola should there be an outbreak.\u201d<\/p>\n
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By: Norvan Acquah \u2013 Hayford\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
American companies operating in Ghana have offered their assistance to the government of Ghana to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola disease in the country. This was disclosed\u00a0by the\u00a0American Chamber of Commerce Ghana\u00a0at a briefing on Ghana\u2019s preparation so far in the event of a possible outbreak. Speaking at the briefing, Deputy Health Minister, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":39210,"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":[],"tags":[15,38,4],"class_list":["post-57852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-chinese","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57852","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}