Dr. Lily Wu, a Surgeon at the Vascular Unit of the Surgical Department has been crowned the best innovator for the maiden Innovation Summit in Korle Bu. She came on top beating competition from Francis Ansah Sasraku from Biomedical Engineering Unit and Dr. Benard Morton of the Renal Transplant team . The Innovation Summit is […]
Delivering Quality and Safe Healthcare Services in Outbreak Situations
On the 31st December, 2019, the global health community woke up to the first reported case of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) from Wuhan, China. By 31st January, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) had elevated the threat level posed by the outbreak as a result of its fast pace of spread. The disease has since […]
Africa Ebola Must Help China Corona
The years 2014 and 2015 were those busy moments for Africa (mostly) and the rest of the world when an enemy virus called Ebola hit us heavily. I remember how the whole world stood upright to fight this transmissible enemy. There were a lot of education via media, training institutions and public places towards avoiding […]
The Innovation Summit (Call for innovations)
The management of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital [KBTH] is organising its first Innovation Summit to showcase new approaches, technologies and ingenious projects in a two-day event dubbed, The Innovation Summit. The Innovation Summit event intends to provide an interdisciplinary forum in the format of oral and poster presentations, panel discussions, and exhibitions. In view […]
korle Bu performs four successful kidney transplantations
Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in collaboration with Transplant Links UK has performed Kidney transplantation for four patients with kidney failures. The patients who included three males and a female are currently doing well. For each transplant, the donor of the kidney was a healthy family member. This gives the person who receives the donated kidney […]