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Former CEO of KATH Dr Nsiah Asare(right) is recognized for his role
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Emergency Medicine in Ghana the success story so far
Emergency Medicine in Ghana the success story so farSource GhanaNhyira FmOhemeng Tawiah
Date 08-09-2015 Time 040949pm
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The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital( KATH)Emergency Training Center has supported thetraining of 15 emergency physicians and 80nurses over the last five years
The is part of efforts to reduce accident andtrauma-related death with the introduction ofemergency medicine practice and training inGhana supported by the Medical EducationPartnership Initiative (MEPI)
The five-year initiative is collaboration amongKATH Kwame Nkrumah University of Scienceand Technology and Michigan UniversityUSA
It is aimed at increasing capacity for provision of emergency medical care in thecountry through innovative and sustainable training for physicians as well as medicaland nursing students
The partners are also taking steps to ensure qualified emergency healthcare workers
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The partners are also taking steps to ensure qualified emergency healthcare workersare evenly distributed and retained whilst providing training to promote nationally-
relevant health research
Preliminary evaluation shows the initiative has yielded dividends far beyond itsprimary goals
Expertise from the programme is currently available in nine regions of Ghana withrequests from some African countries including Ethiopia for opportunity to learn fromthe first-ever Emergency training Center in sub-Saharan Africa
The graduation of 23 more resident doctors who are currently at various levels of their3-year Emergency Medicine training will boost emergency care in Ghana
Head of Emergency Medicine Directorate at KATH Dr George Oduro is happy at thegains made so far especially improvement in patient care
He is hopeful more expansion work will be done to cover other parts of Ghana andbeyond
ldquoConsidering the humble beginnings that we started with I then say developmentswhich have improved patient care and the next five years will see a stronger morevibrant and certainly more focused emergency carerdquo
Medical experts say trauma and accident victims have over the period received thebest of care in Ghana with increased patient-confidentiality and privacy
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In line with this a piloted Electronic Medical Records system is being implemented atthe KATH Accident and Emergency Center with guideline for confidentiality
developed
Despite the gains officials want improvement in some areas to provide best care tothose who need such services
Though satisfied with the speed at which patients are attended to Dr RockefellerOteng Lead Clinician at KATH Emergency Directorate believes a lot more needs tobe done to improve the system
ldquoThe speed with which patients are seen is now much faster We can say that thingsthat couldnrsquot happen before are now happening at our Emergency Department Wersquovemade a difference in the lives of several people who come to our emergencydepartmentrdquo Dr Oteng emphasized
Dr Oteng is widely known for his pioneering role which gave birth to EmergencyMedical Training at KATH
ldquoUntil everybody can get access to the best of care I donrsquot think its enough There areplaces [health facilities] where people donrsquot get emergency physicians when they go tothe hospital So Ghana we are doing something but therersquos a long road aheadrdquo heobserved
Meanwhile over 20 individuals and two corporate bodies have been recognized fortheir contribution to Emergency Medicine at an award gala in Kumasi to mark fiveyears of Emergency Medicine
They include former Chief Executive of KATH Dr Anthony Nsiah -Asare for hisleadership role in the establishment of the Accident and Emergency Centre andsubsequently introduction of Emergency Training Center
Others are Dr William Barsan of the University of Michigan and Director General ofGhana Health Service Dr Ebenezer Appiah Denkyira
One of the specialist trainees Dr Esther Ami Momade picked both the Excellence inCli i l C d Willi G B A d
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The partners are also taking steps to ensure qualified emergency healthcare workersare evenly distributed and retained whilst providing training to promote nationally-
relevant health research
Preliminary evaluation shows the initiative has yielded dividends far beyond itsprimary goals
Expertise from the programme is currently available in nine regions of Ghana withrequests from some African countries including Ethiopia for opportunity to learn fromthe first-ever Emergency training Center in sub-Saharan Africa
The graduation of 23 more resident doctors who are currently at various levels of their3-year Emergency Medicine training will boost emergency care in Ghana
Head of Emergency Medicine Directorate at KATH Dr George Oduro is happy at thegains made so far especially improvement in patient care
He is hopeful more expansion work will be done to cover other parts of Ghana andbeyond
ldquoConsidering the humble beginnings that we started with I then say developmentswhich have improved patient care and the next five years will see a stronger morevibrant and certainly more focused emergency carerdquo
Medical experts say trauma and accident victims have over the period received thebest of care in Ghana with increased patient-confidentiality and privacy
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In line with this a piloted Electronic Medical Records system is being implemented atthe KATH Accident and Emergency Center with guideline for confidentiality
developed
Despite the gains officials want improvement in some areas to provide best care tothose who need such services
Though satisfied with the speed at which patients are attended to Dr RockefellerOteng Lead Clinician at KATH Emergency Directorate believes a lot more needs tobe done to improve the system
ldquoThe speed with which patients are seen is now much faster We can say that thingsthat couldnrsquot happen before are now happening at our Emergency Department Wersquovemade a difference in the lives of several people who come to our emergencydepartmentrdquo Dr Oteng emphasized
Dr Oteng is widely known for his pioneering role which gave birth to EmergencyMedical Training at KATH
ldquoUntil everybody can get access to the best of care I donrsquot think its enough There areplaces [health facilities] where people donrsquot get emergency physicians when they go tothe hospital So Ghana we are doing something but therersquos a long road aheadrdquo heobserved
Meanwhile over 20 individuals and two corporate bodies have been recognized fortheir contribution to Emergency Medicine at an award gala in Kumasi to mark fiveyears of Emergency Medicine
They include former Chief Executive of KATH Dr Anthony Nsiah -Asare for hisleadership role in the establishment of the Accident and Emergency Centre andsubsequently introduction of Emergency Training Center
Others are Dr William Barsan of the University of Michigan and Director General ofGhana Health Service Dr Ebenezer Appiah Denkyira
One of the specialist trainees Dr Esther Ami Momade picked both the Excellence inCli i l C d Willi G B A d
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In line with this a piloted Electronic Medical Records system is being implemented atthe KATH Accident and Emergency Center with guideline for confidentiality
developed
Despite the gains officials want improvement in some areas to provide best care tothose who need such services
Though satisfied with the speed at which patients are attended to Dr RockefellerOteng Lead Clinician at KATH Emergency Directorate believes a lot more needs tobe done to improve the system
ldquoThe speed with which patients are seen is now much faster We can say that thingsthat couldnrsquot happen before are now happening at our Emergency Department Wersquovemade a difference in the lives of several people who come to our emergencydepartmentrdquo Dr Oteng emphasized
Dr Oteng is widely known for his pioneering role which gave birth to EmergencyMedical Training at KATH
ldquoUntil everybody can get access to the best of care I donrsquot think its enough There areplaces [health facilities] where people donrsquot get emergency physicians when they go tothe hospital So Ghana we are doing something but therersquos a long road aheadrdquo heobserved
Meanwhile over 20 individuals and two corporate bodies have been recognized fortheir contribution to Emergency Medicine at an award gala in Kumasi to mark fiveyears of Emergency Medicine
They include former Chief Executive of KATH Dr Anthony Nsiah -Asare for hisleadership role in the establishment of the Accident and Emergency Centre andsubsequently introduction of Emergency Training Center
Others are Dr William Barsan of the University of Michigan and Director General ofGhana Health Service Dr Ebenezer Appiah Denkyira
One of the specialist trainees Dr Esther Ami Momade picked both the Excellence inCli i l C d Willi G B A d
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