The Western Regional Health Directorate, Ghana Hernia Society, Operation Hernia UK and the Western Division of the Ghana Medical Association have collaborated to train local doctors to abreast themselves with the new modern techniques of treating hernia across the Districts in western region.
The Hernia operation is dubbed “Repair Of Groin Hernias Using Mesh”
However, the Ghana Hernia Society has recognized the high prevalence of hernia in the country of which they have entered into a partnership with Ghana Health Service to address challenges in the Western Region.
The exercise is to equip the doctors with better hernia surgery skills to improve the rate of hernia repairs in Ghana.
Meanwhile, 9 Trainers and 22 Trainees were today were derived from the district hospitals in western region to take part in this exercise.
According to Dr. Chris Oppong who is the chairman for Operation Hernia Society, Operation Hernia was set up n 2005 as a charity in the United Kingdom and as a Non-Governmental Organization in Ghana with the sole aim of helping to relief the suffering of Hernia patients.
He emphasized that Operation Hernia annually comes to the western region where they deploy their teams from European Countries to come and work in Dixcove, Takoradi, Kwesimintsim, Essikado, Cape Coast Hospitals on patients with hernia.
Dr. Chris Oppong stated that since 2005, they have been able to operate about 15,000 people with Hernia in Ghana but emphatically said they are not at the bottom of eradicating hernia disease.
He added that the Ghana Hernia Society in their estimation on prevalence of Hernia conclude that, if the low rate of Hernia repair in Ghana which is about 30 per 100,000 continues without any improvement in 10 Years time which accumulate in 2022, there will be a backlog of about millions of patients with Hernia.
Speaking in an interview with the media, he indicated that the hernia operations which will commence at Effiakuma, Takoradi, Essikado, Kwesimintsim and Ghana Port and Harbour Authority Hospitals is free to all people living Hernia.
The funding of the project was being supported by AGM Petroleum Ghana Limited with a Memorandum of Understanding in 2019 between the aforementioned to establish Corporate social responsibility programme where AGM wanted to give back to the society.
Moreover, the best way for AGM to give back to the society is to get engage with some project which will help improve the health of a community.
Story: Benjamin Bray, Takoradi
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