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The birth of a newborn baby fills families with joy and pride as it symbolizes continuity of a lineage. Unfortunately, some mothers do not return home with their bundles of joy due to complications during childbirth. Some even lose their lives in the process. 


Each year, the WHO commemorates the World Health Day on 7th April to shed light on access to quality health services. This year’s World Health Day will be marked on the theme: ‘my health, my right.’ The aim is to work with partners around the world to increase access, education, and information to health services to all people everywhere.

Under a programme called “Helping Babies Breathe,” over 100 health professionals have been trained in Newmont’s Ahafo and Akyem mine’s host communities since 2015. The programme was suspended during the Covid-19 era but resumed this year with the training of midwives and a gynecologist from the Asutifi North District, Tano North Municipality of the Ahafo region as well as the Abirem Government Hospital, health centres and CHPS compounds in the Eastern region.  Training for 12 midwives in health facilities at Ahafo were completed in March while the Akyem mine training begins in April. 

The training programme involves capacity enhancement for the participants in key areas of childcare before, during, and after delivery, based on new research and recommendations from the WHO. 


Newmont’s partnership with Project C.U.R.E. dates back to 2006 with the provision of medical equipment and supplies to under-resourced health facilities in its host communities, while equipping medical staff with life-saving tools to improve diagnosis, treatment, and care. 

This year, Newmont, and Project C.U.R.E. plan to continue to support quality health care delivery in the company’s Ahafo and Akyem host communities through planned initiatives, including the provision of medical equipment to health facilities and community clinics.