Feature

By Rebecca Quaicoe-Duho, GHANA

The cancer burden in developing countries is dominated by breast, prostate and cervical cancer.

The most significant challenge in this region is late presentation as people refuse to seek early treatment and rather prefer to use herbal treatment or consult pastors for healing.

These cancers, according to a Cancer Epidemiologist and Surgical Oncologist from the Rosewell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI), Professor Chukumere Nwogu, are amenable through early detection.

By Rebecca Quaicoe-Duho, GHANA

Despite having three protective gloves on instead of the mandated two, a Ghanaian doctor recounts how he shivered to his bones when he came face to face with an Ebola patient in Liberia.

With over 500 health workers dead from the Ebola scourge, Ghanaian volunteer Dr. Osei Poku recalls the moment after touching an Ebola patient fearing he could become another fatal statistic.

By Rebecca Quaicoe-Duho, GHANA

In 2013, the number of doctors on the Ministry of Health’s (MoH) payroll increased from 2,252 in 2012 to 2,615. Consequently, the doctor to population ratio improved from 1 (one) doctor per 11,515 in 2012 to 1 (One) doctor per 10,170 in 2013.

Though there seems to be general improvement of availability of doctors in health facilities, a substantial number are in the Greater Accra and Ashanti regions making the distribution skewed away from the regions and districts.

By Rebecca Quaicoe-Duho, GHANA

In 2013, the number of doctors on the Ministry of Health’s (MoH) payroll increased from 2,252 in 2012 to 2,615. Consequently, the doctor to population ratio improved from 1 (one) doctor per 11,515 in 2012 to 1 (One) doctor per 10,170 in 2013.

Though there seems to be general improvement of availability of doctors in health facilities, a substantial number are in the Greater Accra and Ashanti regions making the distribution skewed away from the regions and districts.

By Alhaji Komba

Martin Michael, on behalf of the Michael family, Monday 29^th June 2015, made an additional donation to Educaid SL Charitable Foundation at their headquarters at 23 Sheriff Drive, Freetown.

In his presentation to the Country Director of Educaid SL, Martin Michael praised the foundation for what he described as a fantastic charitable work they are undertaking under such difficult times the country is going through.

By Rebecca Quaicoe-Duho, GHANA

Last year at the time where Ebola was ravaging three West African countries, Ghana was also battling with a cholera scourge which claimed more than 200 lives.

It was a chaotic scene at almost all the public health facilities in, especially, the capital city Accra, as well as in all the other regional hospitals and district health facilities as the disease swept through the country like wild fire from June 2014 to the end of the year and beyond.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara, Freetown

Sierra Leone health sector takes pride in 22 referral hospitals and 1,200 peripheral health units across the country. The structural arrangement of the health system places responsibility on the hospitals to take care of major ailments including surgical operations while the PHUs which include community health centres and maternal child health posts provide basic medical services to the communities in which they operate.