{"id":212830,"date":"2025-11-07T08:51:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-ministry-of-health-marks-lead-awareness-week-to-curb-lead-poisoning\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T08:51:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:51:30","slug":"ghana-ministry-of-health-marks-lead-awareness-week-to-curb-lead-poisoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-ministry-of-health-marks-lead-awareness-week-to-curb-lead-poisoning\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Ministry of Health Marks Lead Awareness Week to Curb Lead Poisoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The Ministry of Health (MoH), in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and development partners, has observed this year&#8217;s Lead Awareness Week under the theme &#8220;No Safe Level: Act Now to End Lead Exposure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The campaign, supported by Pure Earth, aims to educate the public on the dangers of lead poisoning and promote efforts to eliminate lead from paints, consumer products, and the environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Speaking on behalf of the Chief Director of the Ministry, Mr. Frank Rajah said lead&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511070044.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 Ministry of Health (MoH), in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and development partners, has observed this year&#8217;s Lead Awareness Week under the theme &#8220;No Safe Level: Act Now to End Lead Exposure.&#8221; The campaign, supported by Pure Earth, aims to educate the public on the dangers of lead poisoning and promote efforts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":212831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,8837,10637,4508,4509,5731,7358,9877,6857,257,13125,254,6653],"class_list":["post-212830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-awareness","tag-curb","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-health","tag-lead","tag-marks","tag-ministry","tag-news","tag-poisoning","tag-south-africa-today","tag-week"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/212830","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=212830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}