Over two million people in Ghana are living with hernia – Medical Director  

Dr Frank Enoch Gyamfi, a Consultant General Surgeon and the Medical Director of the Berekum Holy Family Catholic Hospital in the Bono Region, has said there are over two million people currently living with hernia in Ghana.
He explained that most of these people were living with the condition because of lack of access to surgery due to the limited number of medical specialists in the country, saying hernia was common among people in rural communities who often engage in manual labour.
Dr Gyamfi was speaking at the closing session of a one-week training for some young medical specialists held at the Berekum Holy Family Catholic Hospital.
The Ghana Hernia Society in collaboration with the United Kingdom’s National Institutes of Health Research and the Global Surgery Unit of the University of Birmingham organised the training.
It sought to empower the participants to improve diagnostic, surgeries and management and control of hernia in the country.
Dr Gyamfi explained that the training would greatly help improve healthcare outcomes on hernia management, saying the facility had plans to extend its hernia services to rural communities, promote good health and thereby push economic development.
Professor Stephen Tabiri, the Dean of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Development Studies, said the training had enlightened and improved the skills of the medical specialist in attending to hernia cases.
As a surgical problem common in rural areas, Prof. Tabiri expressed worry that the lack of medical specialists to undertake surgeries.
The training therefore built the capacity and skills of two medical specialists to perform the surgeries for people living with the condition.

Source: GNA

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