The Accra College of Medicine Fees: $12,500 The Accra College of Medicine (“ACM”) is a premier private and independent Medical College set up to provide cutting-edge medical education in Ghana. ACM provides world-class medical education that is research oriented and tailored towards solving Ghana and Africa’s health problems. The medical professionals are passionate about medicine, community oriented, use innovative means to solve problems. They aim to train medical practitioners who are professional and ethical, scientists, innovators and, educators with the commitment to lifelong learning and making a difference in the community.  University of Cape Coast School of Medical Sciences Fees: Fee-Paying Only - GH$ 14,000 International: USD 19,000 The University of Cape Coast started a medical school in 2007 and every potential medical student should give a thought. The good thing here is that the population here is les...

The Ridge Hospital will soon become the Greater Accra regional hospital, President John Mahama has said. This follows the progress of work done on the Ridge Hospital expansion project. The Ridge Hospital project involves the design, construction, procurement and installation of equipment for the rehabilitation of the hospital. The project is expected to be completed in 2016, and is being financed with a Government of Ghana mixed credit facility of US$250 million from Exim Bank and the HSBC Bank. Speaking at the launch of the book, “Accounting To The People” at the Banquet Hall- State House in Accra, President Mahama said "We assume that Korlebu is Greater Accra Regional Hospital. No, Korlebu is a specialist hospital; it is not supposed to be handling ordinary cases." The rehabilitation works of the Ridge hospital is expected to provide the hospital with ultra-modern facilities and a 420-bed capacity to improve quality and expand access to health care delivery, particularly to...

The University of Ghana Teaching Hospital is 65% complete. This is according to the Deputy Health Minister, Dr. Victor Bampoe. . He said the 597 bed teaching hospital is scheduled to be completed within 24 months. The $217 million project is located on a 400 acre land behind the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research of the university. It is being funded by a loan facility agreement between the Government of Ghana and the Government of Israel. The hospital is expected to augment the training of about 1,000 doctors within 5 to 7 years. View photos below By: Efua Idan Osam – pulse.com.gh

Breast Care International (BCI) has indicated that it will from next year intensify its campaign on breast cancer awareness across the country. The aim for the drive is to make Ghana the African hub for the education and treatment of breast cancer across the globe. This was contained in a statement to thank the general public and its sponsors who help make 2015 a success ahead of the yuletide. Below is the full statement We are suddenly rounding up another year, a year full of bliss and challenges. A year that characterized increased patronage of our awareness creation programs one breadth, while illiteracy, ignorance and crunch poverty in another, conspired, to keep a marginal percentage of the populace, from accessing our free screening programs. These constraints notwithstanding, this is the season of joy and merry-making, sufficient reason why we join millions of Ghanaians to bask in the celebrations. The Board, Management and Staff of Breast Care international and Peace And Love H...

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Cold chain medicines are drugs that need to be in a specific temperature for them to work. In this case, they have to remain cool, cold or frozen depending on the medicine for its efficacy to be maintained. However, recent power outages are causing much harm-to patients and to pharmacy owners as well. The details of this issue will amaze you. The load shedding exercise is affecting almost all sectors of the economy and the pharmaceutical sector is not exempted. Some medicines used by some patients are not working as it should be because their efficacy has been compromised due to unstable power supply. Here is a story of how an encounter with a patient gingered me to write this article into the public domain. Gloves on, disinfectant application-checked! Glucometer is ready…ready? And pinch! Blood oozed from her shaky tiny fingers and sample for her blood sugar testing was carried out. It turned out to be high…too high. My patient looked worried and she blamed her insulin citing that the...