Global primary care: reports from around the world: >Ghana

摘要

In October 2012 I travelled to Ghana for 12 days with a team of 10 other health professionals with the organisation Evangelistic Medical Missions Abroad. We spent 4 days working in medical outreach clinics in rural villages near Tamale in the Northern Region of Ghana and 1 day working alongside the staff at a local mission hospital, The King’s Medical Centre. In those few days we saw over 1200 patients with a huge variety of medical conditions, including malaria, gastroenteritis and dehydration, musculoskeletal complaints, and skin diseases. Imagine arriving at work in the morning to set up your ‘consultation room’ under the shade of a tree in the middle of a dusty village with a queue of over 100 people already waiting to see you.