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 personnel in laparoscopic procedures in the northern section of the nation.
Explaining laparoscopic surgery
Laparoscopic surgery involves the insertion of short, thin tubes (trochars) into the belly through small (less than one millimeter) incisions.
Long, slender instruments are introduced via these trochars. These devices are used by the surgeon to handle, cut, and stitch tissues. It is the country's second such clinic, following the one that opened at the Ridge Hospital in Accra a couple of years ago.
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 physicians and nurses had already benefitted from lectures, simulation laparoscopic training, and actual animal laboratory training with pigs.
He claimed that a long-term strategy 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, said that the hospital's extra physicians and nurses will be educated to provide specialised services.
He asked KATH to maintain the facility properly in order to extend its life. He said that a long-term strategy had been devised to allow the center to function regularly whenever the KOFIH help ended.
Dr. Owusu-Danso thanked KOFIH for their assistance on behalf of KATH.
Training
The hospital's additional physicians and nurses will be trained to provide specialized treatments, according to Jinho Kang, KOFIH's Country Director.
He requested that KATH adequately maintain the facility in order to extend its life.