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Veep lauds the establishment of
painless surgery centre
Accra, Feb.20, GNA- Ghana is establishing a Keyhole Surgery
(Laparoscopic) Centre at Korle bu Teaching Hospital, where
the state of the art equipment would be used to carry out
painless surgeries without the conventional incision and
medication.
The centre, the first in the West African Sub-Region would
carry out surgeries on patients, which involves a small
incision around the abdomen, which is filled with gas and
attached to microscopic cameras to give surgeons access to
the defective human anatomy for surgery.
Professor Edward Yeboah, past President of the West African
College of Surgeons, who originated the project in Ghana,
led a team from the International Federation of Societies of
Endoscopic Surgeons (IFSES) to call on Vice President Alhaji
Aliu Mahama to brief him about the innovative surgery
procedure.
Prof. Tehemton Udwadia from India and President of IFSES and
Prof. Jacques Perissat from France, who briefed the Vice
President about the visit, said Ghanaian doctors would be
trained in Laparoscopic surgery to start the centre.
They said the centre was capital intensive and called for
expensive and sustainable maintenance of equipment.
Vice President Mahama expressed the gratitude of the
Executive for the model centre, which he said would offer
patients the opportunity to go back to their normal
activities a day after surgery.
He said the centre also fell in line with Government's
desire to turn Korle bu into a medical facility of
excellence.
The basic procedures to be covered for the surgery include
diagnostic, appendectomy, hernia repair, basic
gynaecological procedures for sterilisation, ectopic
pregnancy and ovarian cysts.
Members of the IFSES would among other things, provide
equipment and train surgeons free of charge.
GNA
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