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Ghanaian doctors in UK render
voluntary services
Accra, Aug. 11, Ghanadot/GNA -
Thirteen Ghanaian medical and dental doctors resident in the
United Kingdom are in the country to embark on a two-week
voluntary health service in six selected hospitals
throughout the country.
The voluntary service, which is to give back to the society,
is part
of a project by the Migration Development Agency and
International Organization on Migration (IOM) dubbed: "Brain
Drain," aimed at meeting the health needs of the people.
The hospitals to benefit from the project include Tamale,
Sunyani, Komfo Anokye, Cape Coast, Atibie and Atua
Government hospitals.
The volunteers will do clinics, surgery, deliver lectures
and organize seminars to give it a strong academic input for
teaching and training.
Dr William Kedjanyi, leader of the Ghana Doctors and
Dentists in UK (GDDA-UK) team, said the programme would be
embedded into the locally driven programmes to address the
service needs of communities.
"It will also create an atmosphere of team work and thereby
remove any fear and feelings of threats or mistrusts in the
minds of local clinicians and health professionals that we
shall be working with.”
He explained that the academic input was geared towards the
provision of postgraduate revision and tutorials to prepare
the candidates for their fellowship examination to become
specialists.
This will be done in collaboration with the University of
Ghana Medical School, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital
Postgraduate programme coordinators and the Ghana College of
Physicians and Surgeons.
Dr Kedjani expressed concern about Ghana's maternal
mortality and maternal health and said GDDA-UK would be
setting up an Acute Life Support for Obstetrics, the first
of its kind in the sub-region at the Korle-Bu, to save the
lives of women.
Dr Gladys Ashitey, a Deputy Minister of Health, commended
the team and IOM for the initiative and pledged the
Ministry's support in ensuring that the volunteer work was
successful.
GNA
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