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Mother cuts off children's male organs
Tema (Greater Accra) 10 Nov. '99
The Tema General Hospital is battling to save the lives of two children, aged one and three, whose mother slashed their male organs with a razor blade in the early hours of Tuesday.
A team of surgeons, led by Dr John Amable is working hard to stitch the pieces of the male organs to enable the children to urinate.
Mrs Victoria Kporvia, who also slashed her stomach open with the same blade, is receiving treatment at the same hospital.
Dr Amable, speaking to the GNA, described the condition of the children as "very critical" due to loss of blood. They need to be given blood transfusion, their mother's condition is however better."
Dr Amable said Mrs Kporvia stated soon after her surgical operation that she had been a "mental patient before and that the problem crops up occasionally".
According to the doctor, the woman claimed that she had no problems with her husband. However soon after her husband had left for work, she decided to commit suicide, using an electric wire but that failed.
He said Mrs Kporvia indicated that since her children would suffer after her death, she decided to kill them as well, using the blade before committing suicide.
Residents of site 15, at Tema community one were terrified when she committed the act and left the children in a pool of blood in their room.
The unusual screaming of the children drew neighbours to the scene and they rushed them to the hospital.
When contacted, the Community One Police said they had no idea about the case.
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Ghana-based company manufactures world's fastest computer
Accra (Greater Accra) 10 Nov. '99
Elmina Virgin 700MHz, the first fastest personal computer (PC) in the world, was on Tuesday launched in Ghana.
The PC, manufactured by Marles Limited, Ghana-based manufacturers and suppliers of multi-media computers, communication and security systems, is 57 per cent faster than the Pentium III 600MHz, which used to be the fastest PC in the world.
Mr Leslie Osei, President and Chief Executive of Marles Limited, told newsmen that Elmina Virgin 700MHz is able to make a live audio and visual recording that can be sent to ones family, friends or business partners through the Internet.
He said the PC also controls systems such as water heater, light, air conditioner "and can even water a garden for you and do more through its voice control system".
Mr Osei said the PC was put together by students of Marles Limited, adding however, that the hardware was manufactured in Taiwan with specifications from "our company".
"The Elmina virgin 700MHz PC significantly outperforms the highest- performing on a broad range of exacting commercial and consumer applications in digital content creation, modelling, image compression, speech recognition amongst others.
"It also does auto CD recording and is Y2K compliant".
He mentioned some of the remarkable features of the new PC as programmable backside L2 cache interface, 128KB of L1 caches and 200-MHz interface between CPU and chipset with a multi-processing support among others.
Mr Osei noted that the special features of the new PC makes it able to deliver the ultimate visual computing experience and enables superior performance for scientific, mathematical and engineering applications.
He said currently, Marles has distribution points in Accra, Kumasi, Cape Coast and Swedru, adding that products of the company are also exported to countries in the West-African sub-region and to the USA.
Mr Osei said with support from the government, computer manufacturing can give Ghana a competitive urge and called on the government to use its Y2K office to educate the public on the strides so far made in solving the millennium bug.
He noted that there are still indications that many citizens would withdraw their moneys from the banks by the close of this year since they are not sure of its safety in the face of the millennium bug.
"When this happens our banks will collapse because no bank can even refund 20 per cent of moneys deposited with it".
Mr James Oyedeji, Administrator of Marles Limited said the company also trains JSS, SSS and all class of students in computer science with the view to instil self-confidence in the Ghanaian youth in the next millennium.
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