UGMC performs beating heart surgery

The Heart Centre of the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) has successfully conducted its first surgery on a beating heart. The surgery, otherwise known as Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass, was performed on two adults, a 70-year-old retired teacher and a 67-year-old businesswoman, who were among six patients who underwent complex cardiac surgical procedures at […]

Mental health eats up 7% GDP

A study conducted by three institutions has revealed that seven per cent of the country’s productivity is lost to ordinary Ghanaians due to mental health. The study by the University of Ghana’s Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), in collaboration with the Yale University and the Department of Psychiatry Department of the University […]

It’s very traumatic – UGMC CEO narrates how colleagues, coronavirus patients die at ICU

The unending fight against COVID-19 has been a very arduous one, and as soldiers go to war, the ones at the front of this battle are our health workers. Some of these frontline health workers sadly become casualties leaving their other colleagues to continue with the fight; very disturbing. About seven hundred and seventy-nine (779) health workers […]