AUTHORITIES at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) have appealed to the Ministry of Health and corporate bodies to provide adequate financial support to the hospital to enable it to organise regular programmes on advance medicine in Ghana.
The Chief Executive of KATH, Professor Ohene Adjei, who made the appeal, explained that such programmes would not only enhance capacity building of medical professionals to be abreast of modern trends in medicine, but would also stem the current brain drain of health professionals in the country.
He was addressing a cross-section of health professionals during a four-day international conference on advances in medicine in Kumasi.
About 250 medical professionals from the United States of America, Ghana, Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire and The Sudan are taking part in the conference, which aims at providing updates in clinical medicine through didactic teaching, workshops and hands-on experiences on a broad range of topics.
The topics to be covered during the conference include rheumatic heart diseases, management of coronary artery disease, management of hypertensive emergencies, substance abuse, identifying the child with a genetic syndrome, evaluation and management of acute renal failure and genetic cancer syndrome detection.
Other topics are gastro-intestinal endoscopy, intensive care medicine, alcohol abrasion of liver tumours, cervical cancer and breast cancer screening, advance cardiac life support, general psychiatry, chronic renal diseases and kidney transplantation.
Commending the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons and Olmsted Outreach of the United States for collaborating with the KATH to organise the international conference for the past eight years, Professor Ohene Adjei gave an assurance that the hospital would continue to build the capacity of medical professionals to effectively face the emerging challenges in the field of health care.
In an address read on his behalf, the Minister of Health, Dr Benjamin Kunbuor, commended the KATH authorities for their sense of initiatives in organising conferences of such magnitude for the past eight years.
“ It is quite a task to gather annually such a world-class faculty from some of the leading medical institutions in the USA, Europe and Africa to address the continuous medical education needs of health professionals in Africa,” he noted.
He advised medical professionals in Africa to take advantage of the conference, “ so that they can keep abreast of advances in the profession”.
In his remarks, Dr Robert Lewis of Africa Partners Medical of the US, assured of continuous support to sustain the programme.
This, he said, would promote what he described as brain re-circulation among medical professionals in Africa.
He commended the participants for their commitment to the programme and urged them to remain focused to enhance their capacity building, thereby promoting healthcare delivery in Africa.
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