Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the Hospital will from April, this year begin postgraduate training in Emergency Medicine. The Head of the Accident & Emergency Department, Dr. Frederick Kwarteng has disclosed that “on Monday, April 4, 2022, doctors who have enrolled into the Emergency Medicine Residency will report at the Department to begin the program. Dr. […]
Maiden Research Call – 2021 KBTH Research Grant
1st call for proposals for kbth research support grant 2021 As the premier tertiary healthcare institution established with research as one of her pivotal agenda, the hospital continues to blaze the trail in creativity and innovation in research and medical practice. In order to continue to foster transformation and align our research endeavours to higher […]
NEW CEO, DR OPOKU WARE AMPOMAH ASSUMES OFFICE
The Hospital’s new Chief Executive Officer, Dr Opoku Ware Ampomah, has assumed office after his appointment. Before his appointment, Dr Opoku Ware Ampomah was the Director of National Reconstructive Plastics Surgery and Burns Centre. He is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon with many years of experience in Hospital Management. The Board and Management of the Hospital […]
CREATING A MENTALLY HEALTHY WORKFORCE
THE HEALTH WORKPLACE AND COVID-19 CRISIS The arrival and the rapid spread of COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the importance of mental health and the critical need to create a mentally healthy workplace for the workforce. Health care providers and mangers in the healthcare industry cannot ignore the mental stress that covid-19 has presented to the […]
KORLE BU BEGINS RADIATION THERAPY TREATMENT FOR PROSTATE CANCER
The National Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy Centre (NNMRC) of the Hospital has begun the treatment of prostate cancers with a new intervention called Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT). Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) is an advanced mode of high-precision radiotherapy that uses computer-controlled linear accelerators to deliver precise radiation doses to a malignant tumor or specific areas […]