The Korea Foundation for International Healthcare (KOFIH) has given the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) a laparoscopic surgical training center to help deliver minimally invasive surgical services.
The $234,231 facility will also assist in the training of appropriate health workers in laparoscopic procedures in the northern section of the country.
Explaining laparoscopic surgery
Laparoscopic surgery involves the insertion of short, narrow tubes (trochars) into the belly through small (less than one millimeter) incisions.
Long, slender instruments are introduced via these trochars. The surgeon utilizes these instruments to handle, cut and suture tissues.
It is the country's second such facility, following the one that opened at the Ridge Hospital in 2010. a couple of years ago in Accra
The facility will aid in the enhancement of surgical directorate services, including as gynaecology and obstetrics surgery.
Dr Dominic Darkwa, the training center's lead surgeon, has already been dispatched to Korea for a six-month rigorous course in laparoscopic surgery.
As a result, a proposal to KOFIH was developed to address the need to practice laparoscopy and transfer expertise at KATH.
The simulation begins.
Dr. Oheneba Owusu-Danso, the Chief Executive of KATH, claimed that roughly 15 doctors and nurses had already benefited from lectures, simulation laparoscopic training, and life animal laboratory training with pigs.
He claimed that a long-term plan had been worked up to allow the center to continue operating normally once the KOFIH assistance ceased.
Dr. Owusu-Danso extended KATH's gratitude to KOFIH for their help.
Training
Jinho Kang, KOFIH's Country Director, revealed that the hospital's additional doctors and nurses would be educated to provide specialised services.
He asked KATH to maintain the facility properly in order to extend its life.
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