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Ghanaian Doctors In UK To Offer Free Services |
| The Ghana Doctors and Dentists Association in the United Kingdom (GDDA-UK) has acquired a variety of medical equipment worth about £50,000 for the implementation of a programme of providing free specialist medical services for the public in Ghana. |
The programme, which is also meant to support the training of local health personnel and medical students, will formally begin in Accra on August 8, this year.
The Secretary of the association, Dr William Kedjanyi, said in an interview in London on Monday that the programme would be carried out annually in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, the Ghana Health Service, the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, the University of Ghana Medical School and the Ghana High Commission in London.
He said its priority areas would include paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, medicine, dentistry, ear, nose and throat surgery and accidents and emergency.
He said the equipment acquired so far included electro-cardiograph (ECG) machines, ventflons, hearing aids and foetal monitors.
Dr Kedjanyi said the association had already selected 12 doctors and three dentists to fly home for the inaugural programme, which would be followed by a two-week exercise to provide free health services for some communities in Accra.
He gave the assurance that the programme would be extended to schools in other parts of the country in future.
Dr Kedjanyi, who is an ear, nose and throat surgeon, said the association planned to help to reduce the maternal and infant mortality rate in Ghana.
“Our voluntary health work is to show gratitude to Ghana for the medical foundation we were given at home,” he said.
Dr Kedjanyi said since the formation of the association in February 2006, it had been growing from strength to strength and now had more than 100 members.
He said the association would continue to work in collaboration with health authorities in Ghana to address the country’s health needs and expressed gratitude to Ghana’s High Commissioner to the UK, Mr Annan Cato, for his relentless dedication and support to the cause of the association.
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