Have you ever called the police to intervene in persistent armed robberies in your neighbourhood? Have you ever reported suspicious strangers in your neighbours to the police? Have you ever witnessed arrival of reinforcement to help deal with a serious security threat? If you have ever, then there is a new cancer drug that uses … Continue reading Understanding a new cancer treatment that uses the immune system: a simplified version
Do we even know what we are destroying? Impact of Galamsey on scientific discovery in Ghana
Ecosystem-to-Scientific Discovery: Harnessing Nature for Global Health Galamsey is a Ghanaian household name for illegal small-scale or artisanal gold mining done mainly in waterbodies and forest reserves in such a way that it destroys and poisons the waterbodies, land and forest in way that can be described as ecocide. Though Galamsey predates the arrival of … Continue reading Do we even know what we are destroying? Impact of Galamsey on scientific discovery in Ghana
The Wait is the Weight
Artificial intelligence-generated cartoon illustration of a Black African boy who has an audacious dream to reach the zenith of a mountain. The wait is the weightBut is the weight worth the waitEmbracing prolonged silence requires a different kind of lensLest the silence begins to sound like loud noiseEvery dream is worth a holy screamBut a … Continue reading The Wait is the Weight
The rise of Shisha and the fall of Ghanaian youth: an emerging deadly trend
Figure 1. Artificial intelligence-generated image of Ghanaian teenage girl smoking shisha, with 'No Smoking' sign on the wall. For so many years, tobacco plant (Nicotiana) has been used as remedy for several maladies, and also as a sociocultural relic because of its pleasurable effects (Ba, 2004). There are over 60 species of tobacco plant (Ba, … Continue reading The rise of Shisha and the fall of Ghanaian youth: an emerging deadly trend
From tattoos to national identity cards: determining the identity of unrepresented patients in Ghana
"Invisible, nobody sees me Goodbyes and hi’s, nobody greets me Can I be a member I do surrender I have no agenda Just see me." – M.anifest in Invisible [1]. A person’s identity is intimately linked to the person’s humanity. In a hospital setting, determining a person’s identity further answers questions about what the person … Continue reading From tattoos to national identity cards: determining the identity of unrepresented patients in Ghana
Is there room for faecal transplant in healthcare in Ghana?
In a research article titled, Duodenal Infusion of Donor Feces for Recurrent Clostridium difficile, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, faeces from healthy donors were used to successfully treat research participants with recurrent infection in a clinical trial. A clinical trial is a kind of experiment that is conducted to compare, … Continue reading Is there room for faecal transplant in healthcare in Ghana?
Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, and Ethics in Ghana
In less than six months after graduating from medical school, the teaching hospital–where I was trained–started transitioning to a paperless hospital system. Nearly all forms of documentation became electronic. Though the transition encountered some resistance, it was successfully implemented. Patients no longer had to queue for long hours to retrieve their folders before getting to … Continue reading Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, and Ethics in Ghana
‘COME AND SEE A PREGNANT CRIPPLE’: women with disabilities and the barriers to maternal healthcare in Ghana
“For people like us we need special care during pregnancy to ensure safe delivery. I try to go for antenatal care, and I believe every pregnant woman needs it.”1 Anonymous woman with disability Disability is a physical, cognitive/mental, emotional, sensory, or developmental impairment, or a combination of any of these impairments, which negatively affect a … Continue reading ‘COME AND SEE A PREGNANT CRIPPLE’: women with disabilities and the barriers to maternal healthcare in Ghana
[BOOK REVIEW] Anatomic and Surgical Pathology Practice: A Clinician’s Guide, by Dr Kafui P. Akakpo. Icon Publishing Ltd., Accra, 2022, 379 pp., ISBN 978-9988-3-30385
Summary: Pathology practice is essential to patient-centered and evidence-based healthcare. In its truest sense, pathology practice–hospital autopsy, forensic autopsy, surgical pathology, and cytopathology–is relatively underappreciated amongst medical students and clinicians in Ghana. A 379-page book, Anatomic and Surgical Pathology Practice: A Clinician’s Guide, recently published by Dr Kafui P. Akakpo, a consultant pathologist and fellow … Continue reading [BOOK REVIEW] Anatomic and Surgical Pathology Practice: A Clinician’s Guide, by Dr Kafui P. Akakpo. Icon Publishing Ltd., Accra, 2022, 379 pp., ISBN 978-9988-3-30385
THREE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS IN LIFE: the dearth of humanity
"Nimdeɛ firi obi ano." "Knowledge (or understanding) are from someone's mouth." Akan proverb Photo credit: Google images University of Cape Coast School of Medical Sciences is a Ghanaian medical school whose central pedagogy is problem-based learning approach, with a special interest in public health, mental health, ethical health care practice, and teamwork. From second year, … Continue reading THREE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS IN LIFE: the dearth of humanity
Tongue of the Wind 