AmCham Ghana Executive Secretary Pay Courtesy Call On AGRIMAT

AmCham Ghana Executive Secretary, Simon Madjie, paid a courtesy call on AGRIMAT USA LLC., operators of the Agrimat factory at the Tema industrial enclave.  The company produces packaging and storage materials for organic products which can store produce such as Cocoa, Maize, and other grains for up to 7 years.

The factory will be fully operational in October and will employ over 50 workers with half of them being women. The products are poised to be traded under the AfCFTA.

AGRIMAT USA, is primarily an agricultural input distribution company that has set as its goal the aim of bringing to the rest of the world some of the inputs that are made in the USA which have made the productivity and yields of the American farmer the envy of other farmers in some other parts of the world.

Kosmos Energy Donates Refrigerated Van Worth $50,000 To Ghana Health Service To Support COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

ACCRA – July 22, 2021 – Kosmos Energy donated a state-of-the-art refrigerated van worth approximately US$50,000 to the Ghana Health Service (GHS) during a ceremony held earlier today. The van – a 2021 Hyundai HD 45 Truck with an installed Xarios 350 refrigeration system – was presented to Mr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, Director General of the Ghana Health Service.

Commenting on the donation, Mr. Joe Mensah, Kosmos Energy’s Senior Vice President and Head of the Ghana Business Unit, said: “Distributing the COVID-19 vaccine to as many people as possible is a critical task during the ongoing pandemic. We are pleased to do our part to support the Ghana Health Service as it works to vaccinate Ghana’s citizens.”

Mr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, Director General of the Ghana Health Service, said: “We thank Kosmos Energy for supporting our work to improve public health. This gesture of support came at the right time – when the number of COVID-19 cases are increasing and we need to transport vaccine doses to all 16 regions of the country.”

The Ghana Health Service currently operates two temperature-controlled vehicles and recognized the need for an additional vehicle to aid its immunization program for COVID-19 and other diseases.

This is not the first time Kosmos Energy has stepped forward to support the important work of the Ghana Health Service. Last year, Kosmos Energy donated equipment and supplies worth up to US $50,000, including an automated DNA/RNA extraction machine, along with 700 RNA extraction test kits and 1,500 swabs and transporters.

U.S. Ambassador To Ghana Visits Bunge Loders Croklaan

The U.S Ambassador to Ghana, Stephanie Sullivan, on Tuesday, July 13, 2021, visited the Bunge Loders Croklaan shea butter processing facility at the Free Zone Enclave.

The visit was to have a first-hand experience of Bunge’s operations in Ghana and have an interaction with management. Bunge Loders Croklaan in 2019 opened its shea plant to process shea butter made from locally collected and crushed shea nuts into two products – shea olein and shea stearin.

The Ambassador was briefed on the companies history and operations across the globe, including its sustainability efforts to support the women involved in the collection of shea nuts as well as environmental sustainability efforts in shea nut production. Amb. Sullivan was also given a tour of the company’s facilities, including its fully automated solvent fractionation plant, which the company says is the largest facility of its kind in Africa.

 

The facility at the free zone enclave is the company’s first shea processing plant in Africa, and Bunge Loders Croklaan says that the site will allow it to meet the growing global demand for shea.

Bunge Loders Croklaan has more than two centuries of experience, unmatched global scale, and deeply rooted relationships everywhere they operate.

They provide ingredients and know-how to some of the world’s biggest brands with products such as specialty oils and milled grains, which are key ingredients for consumer and restaurant brands – and in home kitchens around the world.

 

The Dynamics Of Modern Health Data – TechGulf

The increasing need for data storage solutions within the healthcare industry today has come with extensive convenience and the oversight it has introduced in terms of data management, availability, protection, and adoption have proven vital to the industry. The knowledge of the dynamics of modern health data is essential for Healthcare institutions in Ghana in order to make the right decisions to be up to date and for future compliance. These are the relevant dynamics:

Data Growth

Managing exponential data growth is painstaking. Hospitals, in particular, struggle to keep up with the rapid growth of their electronic records. Hospitals and other healthcare facilities are experiencing increasing demand for data storage devices and backup hard drives in order to manage rapidly expanding volumes of patient data. The demand for electronic health records and high-quality document imaging has necessitated the need for hospitals to protect their digital information.

Data Availability

Data loss in any health facility would be a huge tragedy. Hence, data management and storage measures to ensure this never happens must be implemented immediately. Sensitive data such as surgical videos, X-ray images, CT scans, sonographic results, cardiac catheterizations, patient files, and databases need to be protected and secured. The routine storage and transmission of large files such as CT scans, MRIs, and other diagnostic images and the rollout of electronic patient health records, system integrators require reliable and durable data backup solutions for all users.

Data Management

Data management tasks co-exist stressful healthcare delivery in today’s hospitals. The healthcare delivery project flows through patient data administration, coordination of examination dates, filing of laboratory results. This information must be secured against data loss which might be caused by various incidents. Consequently, X-ray pictures, cardiograms, or magnetic resonance imaging data have to be archived for several years. Additionally, patient data needs to be kept to get a long-term overview about the progression of a disease.

Data Adoption

Ghana’s Ministry of Health has mandated that public and private health care providers must transition their practices to electronic health records. The benefits are clear: critical patient histories and records follow patients no matter where they seek treatment, and that same paperwork is less likely to go missing somewhere in a transition or due to misfiling. This mandate is just one reason among many why the health care industry has become so data-hungry. Another is general legal preparedness since the careful handling of records is essential in such a risk-averse business.

Data Center

Thanks to modern technology, the health care industry is getting a top-to-bottom overhaul, legislation, and a changing demographic landscape. By the end of 2020, the health care industry was expected to spend close to $2.7 trillion per annum on IT infrastructure, including data centers.

This reflects a great change in the process health services are administered, making the availability, affordability, and uptime of data centers now a top priority to health system administrators.

An increasing number of patients are appreciating the importance of telemedicine. This is common in the mental health care space, where telemedicine uses technologies like VPNs and video conferencing software to remotely meet with patients.

The objective of the data storage management system is to ensure data is up to code with the world’s ever-evolving privacy and security regulations and best practices needed in order to realize the benefits of modern technology.

Abbott Laboratories Joins AmCham Ghana As Platinum Member

AmCham Ghana is pleased to announce Abbott Laboratories as our new Platinum Member.

Abbott understands that the first step to living your best life is good health. Everything they make is designed to help you do just that. That’s Abbott’s commitment to building life-changing technologies that keep your heart healthy, nourish your body at every stage of life, help you feel and move better, and bring you information, medicines, and breakthroughs to manage your health.

They create breakthrough products – in diagnostics, medical devices, nutrition and branded generic pharmaceuticals – that help you, your family, and your community lead healthier lives, full of unlimited possibilities. Today, 109,000 Abbott employees are working to make a lasting impact on health in the more than 160 countries they serve.

For more than 130 years, they have put science and innovation to work – to create more possibilities for more people through the power of health. Abbott adapts and responds quickly to changes in the world around us to deliver better solutions to help people live their best lives.

Abbott focuses on innovative technologies that can improve the way clinicians treat people with vascular diseases, irregular heartbeats, and diseases of the heart’s valves and other structures.

They believe people with diabetes should have the freedom to enjoy vigorous, active lives. Their systems help people with diabetes manage their health more effectively and comfortably with easy-to-use products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions.

The key to successful treatment and full recovery is often fast, accurate diagnosis. Abbott’s life-changing tests and diagnostic tools provide insights that enable smarter, faster decisions and transform the way the world is managing health.

Google Joins AmCham Ghana

The American Chamber of Commerce, Ghana, is pleased to announce Google as our new Platinum Member.

Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products, including online advertising technologies, a search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

Google is Alphabet’s largest subsidiary and is a holding company for Alphabet’s Internet properties and interests.

A robot pours popcorn from a cooking pot into a bowl on March 8, 2017 at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI) of the university of Bremen, northwestern Germany.
Scientists of the institute work among others on “AI-based control methods for robotic agents, performing human-scale everyday manipulation-task”, and investigate “computing systems that assist humans at home, at work and during leisure activities”. / AFP PHOTO / dpa / Ingo Wagner / Germany OUT (Photo credit should read INGO WAGNER/AFP/Getty Images)

They offer services designed for work and productivity (Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides), email (Gmail), scheduling and time management (Google Calendar), cloud storage (Google Drive), instant messaging, and video chat (Google Duo, Google Chat, and Google Meet), language translation (Google Translate), mapping and navigation (Google Maps, Waze, Google Earth, and Street View), podcast hosting (Google Podcasts), video sharing (YouTube), blog publishing (Blogger), note-taking (Google Keep and Jamboard), and photo organizing and editing (Google Photos).

Google has moved increasingly into hardware; from 2010 to 2015, it partnered with major electronics manufacturers to produce its Google Nexus devices. It released multiple hardware products in 2016, including the Google Pixel line of smartphones, Google Home smart speaker, Google Wifi mesh wireless router. Google has also experimented with becoming an Internet carrier (Google Fiber and Google Fi).

Google in 2019 opened its first Africa Artificial Intelligence lab in Ghana to provide developers with the necessary research needed to build products that can solve problems that Africa faces today.

The center also focuses on enhancing Google Translate’s ability to capture African languages more precisely, with Cisse saying a continent with more than 2000 dialects deserves to be better served.

TechGulf Donates 1O,800 KN95 Nose Masks To Korle Bu

Technology company, TechGulf Ghana Limited, donated 10,800 KN95 nose masks to the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. The donation was to support the hospital’s fight against COVID-19.

TechGulf’s CEO, Franklin Asare, during the donation said, Korle Bu, is key to health care delivery in Ghana and TechGulf is willing and ready to assist the hospital in various capacities, including IT for data storage and telemedicine.

Present at the event was the CEO of Korlu Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr. Opoku Ware Ampomah, who received the items and expressed his appreciation of the kind gesture, stating it will go a long way to help the hospital protect its staff.  Also present were AmCham Ghana Executive Secretary, Simon Madjie, the hospital’s Director of Administration,  Munir Alhassan, and other senior staff of the hospital and TechGulf.

Gunner Hamlyn, Economic Officer at U.S. Embassy in Ghana, who was also present said the donation by the American-based company represents a significant form of assistance to the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital’s ability to provide quality healthcare and protect medical professionals.

TechGulf Ghana Limited was set up to execute and operationalize the mandate of TechGulf LLC in respect of
introducing US Technology Companies to the Africa Region. One of the key strategic partners of TechGulf is Overland Tandberg, which is a Silicon Valley-based technology company that provides full life cycle data management solutions.

Swagelok Joins AmCham Ghana

The chamber is pleased to announce Swagelok Ghana as our new Gold Member. Swagelok Ghana is the local Sales and Service Centre for Swagelok, providing high-quality fluid management products, and unique problem-solving to fabrication, assembly & build.

Since 1947, Swagelok has been a values-based company committed to doing the right thing in all cases.

Their values orientation plays out in everything from supply chain management to engineering, manufacturing, fulfillment, and sales and service.

As a privately held company, they are not under pressure for short-term financial results. In all areas of business, they attempt to make decisions that are in the best long-term interests of their company, associates, sales and service centers, and customers.

The company’s services include Fabrication Assembly & Build, providing uniquely designed Swagelok solutions to your unique business issues, Tool and Equipment Rental, and Installation Training with a range of courses available to cover your installation training needs.

 

Contact:

+233 302 677469

+233 244 103579

+233 541 002144

info@xostafrica.com

ghana.swagelok.com

Webster Ghana Campus June Events

Intended for anyone who is ready to go back to school for a quality American Master’s degree, this evening session will offer the opportunity to discover the Webster difference while meeting international faculty, current students, and admissions staff who will answer questions. All attendees will enjoy 30% off tuition should they apply and enroll in the fast-approaching August intake. Event details and to register

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Our undergraduate students have the unique opportunity to earn an American degree right from Ghana while also being able to spend up to 1 year abroad at any of Webster’s 9 global campuses. Parents and students looking at starting college over the next year are encouraged to register and join to get a virtual campus tour and find out all there is to know about becoming a Webster student.

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On Thursday, June 24th after work, we will host our second ever online HR Masterclass, in-line with the new MA, HR Management Master’s degree program offering. Led by renowned Webster faculty from the business school, based in the US and with Ecobank HR Director, Daphne Oppong, as guest speaker; this free session looking at THE FUTURE OF WORK: THE “NEW WORKFORCE” ECOSYSTEM, promises to be insightful and relevant to the current restructuring of how many corporates define staff globally.

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