{"id":178523,"date":"2024-08-14T15:35:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T13:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-renal-patient-association-president-urges-government-to-waive-taxes-on-dialysis-consumables\/"},"modified":"2024-08-14T15:35:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T13:35:40","slug":"ghana-renal-patient-association-president-urges-government-to-waive-taxes-on-dialysis-consumables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-renal-patient-association-president-urges-government-to-waive-taxes-on-dialysis-consumables\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Renal Patient Association President Urges Government to Waive Taxes On Dialysis Consumables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>The dialysis consumables, imported from Germany, were seized upon arrival due to unpaid taxes and associated fees, hindering their release and clearance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The President of the Renal Patient Association, Kojo Baffour Ahenkorah, has urged the government to exempt dialysis consumables from all taxes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Speaking on Starr FM on August 13, 2024, he expressed concern over the recent closure of the Korle-Bu Renal Unit, attributing it to exorbitant taxes on dialysis consumables.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">&#8220;I agree with you perfectly,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408140327.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dialysis consumables, imported from Germany, were seized upon arrival due to unpaid taxes and associated fees, hindering their release and clearance. The President of the Renal Patient Association, Kojo Baffour Ahenkorah, has urged the government to exempt dialysis consumables from all taxes. Speaking on Starr FM on August 13, 2024, he expressed concern over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":178524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,5735,49279,33560,4508,4509,6427,257,13447,2450,32660,254,12062,6810,21054],"class_list":["post-178523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-association","tag-consumables","tag-dialysis","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-government","tag-news","tag-patient","tag-president","tag-renal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-taxes","tag-urges","tag-waive"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}