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| C.E.O of TTH |
The Chief Executive Officer of the Tamale Teaching
Hospital (TTH), Dr. Ken Sagoe has called for a very close and effective
collaboration between his outfit and the Reconstructive, Plastic Surgery and
Burn Centre (RPSBC) of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital so as to enable the
former also establish a similar specialize centre in future.
According to
him, there was the need for such a partnership between the two institutions so
that in the near future RPSBC could be set up at the TTH in order to deal with
complicated surgeries that emanated from burns and other injuries.
Dr. Sagoe who
made this call during a free medical outreach programme jointly organized by
the aforementioned institutions with support from the Ministry of Health and
the Northern Regional Coordinating Council in Tamale, said he would be ready to
provide scholarship to any houseman who would be ready and willing to
specialize in plastic surgery.
About 200 people
including men, women and children from the three regions of the North –Upper
West, Upper East and Northern Regions, were screened and successfully underwent various forms of surgery within one
week at the Tamale Teaching Hospital.
According to the
Public Relations Officer of the TTH, Gabriel Nii-Out Ankrah, 79 people out of
the 200 screened underwent various forms of surgery. Adding, he said only one
person has been referred to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital for special
attention due to the nature of her condition.
The outreach
programme also afforded some medical doctors and housemen of the hospital the
opportunity to be trained so as to build their capacity in readiness for
emergency situations in future.
The Northern
Regional Director of the Ghana Health Services, Dr. Akwasi Twumasi, also reiterated
his call on medical doctors and other critical health personnel to accept
postings to district hospitals, most of which were understaffed.
According to
him, those hospitals lacked the requisite manpower to be able to handle most of
the health problems of the people and there was the need for more health
personnel to go there and salvage the situation.
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| Medical Dir. RPSBC, Korle-Bu TTH |
On his part, Dr.
Opoku Ware Ampomah, Medical Director of the RPSBC of the Korle-Bu Teaching
Hospital expressed fears that with Ghana as an oil economy, there were going to
be an increase in burn injuries in the country due to the high risk that oil
transportation across the country posed.
Dr. Ampomah who
led the 27 team of medical doctors and other specialists to the Tamale Teaching
Hospital health outreach programme, said there was the need for government to
augment the existing facilities in order to take care of the situation during
emergencies.
He also observed
that the problem of burn management and prevention was further compounded by
poor education and preventive strategies at the community, corporate and
nationals. “There is a profound lack of appropriate legislation or its
enforcement to correct these anomalies, and this combined with the widespread
ignorance about what to do with routine fire hazards, sets the stage for
disastrous general handling of severe burn cases, and increased post-injury
complications”, he noted.
Meanwhile, among
other things, the outreach programme was planned to kick-start regular clinical
visits to the North. In the short term, it enhanced access to services, built
local capacity and provided exposure and training to medical students, doctors
as well as allied health personnel.
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