Delta Air Lines And AmCham Ghana Set For More Future Collaborations

AmCham Ghana and Delta Air Lines are set for more collaborations in the future to host events on issues of mutual interest. This was disclosed when the chamber’s Executive Secretary, Simon Madjie, paid a visit to the offices of Delta and engaged with the Sales Manager for Ghana, Liberia, and Cote d’Ivoire, Eloina Baddoo.

Delta Air Lines is one of the longest-standing members of AmCham Ghana and has collaborated on many events in the past. Every year, nearly 200 million travelers trust Delta to get them where they’re going.

Delta is the first and longest-serving American carrier connecting Ghanaians and Americans for business, leisure, and medical travel in safety and comfort since 2006.

AmCham Ghana Meeting With Government Account And Local Content Head At Baker Hughes

AmCham Ghana Executive Secretary, Simon Madjie, met with William Yeboah, Government Account and Local Content Head at Baker Hughes, to discuss the company’s operations and possible areas of collaboration with the chamber.

The AmCham Ghana Gold Member, Baker Hughes is a U.S company with operations in more than 120 countries and works in partnership with our customers, wherever they are, to deliver better outcomes.

Baker Hughes is committed to an inclusive and collaborative culture, helping its 54,000 employees develop their careers and thrive at work every day.

Nii Plants & Car Rentals Limited Opens New Corporate Office

Nii Plants and Car Rentals, on Friday, October 1, 2021, officially opened its new ultra-modern corporate office at Dansoman in Accra.

The new office complex is also home to the company’s subsidiaries, Plantsville Residences, NiiPlants Logistics, and Puffs Ghana.  The new building was designed and constructed by another AmCham Ghana member, Landsar Developers Ltd.

Nii Plants has built up a solid reputation in providing unbridled customer-focused total mobility services since its establishment in 2007.

The company has positioned itself to cater to your business needs, organizing airline travel ticketing, ensure that you travel in comfort, style, and safety. The Nii Plants Business Concierge service is designed to cater to all your executive and personal needs. They rent and maintain cars on your behalf whatever the size of your business or requirements.

Nii Plants is committed to providing a full range of unmatched service standards, competitive rates, and professionalism by meeting the demands of customers. Learn more

Ecobank, People’s Pension Target Workers, Especially the Underserved With a Digital Pension Product

People’s Pension and Ecobank Ghana have launched a new innovative digital pension product that will allow all workers, particularly informal workers who make up about 85% of the Ghanaian workforce, to contribute towards a better retirement through the Ecobank Mobile App and the Ecobank Xpress points nationwide.

On the Ecobank Mobile App, the product is listed as a biller option under Pensions Biller. It enables both new and existing People’s Pension and Ecobank customers to contribute conveniently towards their pension. For informal workers, it provides a much-needed avenue for them to save and for formal sector works, this plan can be used to augment their mandatory schemes.

For the second sign-up channel which is the Ecobank Xpress points, eligible members of the public can sign up for the pension scheme at over 6000 Xpress points nationwide. These agent points are readily available in the communities and offer the ease and convenience of signing up without travelling long distances to access the service.

Bringing pension services closer to everyone through this partnership will create a significant impact and help accelerate the financial inclusion drive and generate enormous benefits to the Ghanaian economy. This partnership is also in line with the Sustainable Development Goals 1 and 8 of ensuring No Poverty and Decent Work and Economic Growth for all.

Speaking at the launch, CEO of People’s Pension, Saqib Nazir, noted that Ghana’s informal sector workers, largely underserved with financial services, form part of the 400 to 500 million in West Africa and the two billion people globally who need financial services extended to them.

Whereas the risk of extending financial services to the informal sector is high, there is also a huge potential of funds to be mobilized from that sector for national development when they are financially included while creating value and security for the contributors.

Saqib Nazir noted that financially including the informal sector has been a difficult one over the years. Still, strategic partnerships like Ecobank and People’s Pension present flexible and innovative pensions that should enable informal sector workers to get on board and secure a future for themselves easily.

The Managing Director of Ecobank Ghana, Dan Sackey, on the other hand, said this new partnership is testimony to Ecobank’s avowed commitment to using digital technology to drive financial inclusion and create value for Ghanaians, especially the largely underserved informal sector.

He said the move has a two-edged sword of ensuring financial inclusion to secure informal sector workers’ long-term welfare and unlocking and redirecting capital for long-term national development.

Director of Research, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation at the National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA), Amartey Vondee, lauded the two institutions for designing such an innovative product that helps extend pension coverage in the country.

CITAM Joins AmCham Ghana

CITAM Ltd was established in 2007 as a training, consulting, and recruiting firm to provide world-class service to individuals and organizations.

Over the years, however, it has gained a reputation as a major firm providing technology and management solutions with a focus on human resource management.

They have provided services to Government, Public and Private institutions. Our expertise spans Strategic Planning, Organizational Restructuring, Performance Management Systems, Rewards Management System, Management Information System, and Business Services.

CITAM has an office in Virginia serving the Washington, DC metro area. In addition to providing training, consulting, and recruiting services, this office is dedicated to assisting American companies and investors who wish to do business in Ghana and Africa. Learn more

On behalf of the AmCham Ghana Board of Directors, the chamber welcomes CITAM to our community of progressive business.

Baker Hughes Joins AmCham Ghana

Baker Hughes, an American international industrial service company and one of the world’s largest oil field services companies joins AmCham Ghana as a Gold Member.

The company is the leading energy technology company. They design, manufacture and service transformative technologies to help take energy forward.

For more than a century, their inventions have revolutionized energy. They harness the power of engineering, data, and science to redefine what’s possible.

With operations in more than 120 countries, Baker Hughes works in partnership with our customers, wherever they are, to deliver better outcomes. They are proud that their people and the company’s businesses are part of the fabric of the communities in which they work. Learn more

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.