Wednesday, May 18, 2022.
In 2011, while I was studying Gynaecologic Oncology in Berlin, Germany, I discussed my idea of cervical precancer screening in Ghana using low cost HPV DNA testing and in the communities using the Community Health Nurses, with a German Researcher. He was impressed. I came…
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Dr. Kofi Effah 95 posts 6 comments
Dr. Kofi Effah is a gynaecologist and head of the Cervical Cancer Prevention and Training Centre in Catholic Hospital, Battor in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region of Ghana.
Cervical (pre)cancer screening with HPV DNA testing in Ghana: where are we coming…
Sunday, May 15, 2022.
Thirteen (13) years ago, I visited some CHPS (Community-based Health Planning Services)…
When your parent is the head in your institution: benefits, challenges and…
Saturday, May 14, 2022.
I attended T. I. Ahmadiyya Secondary School, Kumasi, from 1985 to 1990 when I took the O…
More ‘special groups’ screened by the CCPTC
Wednesday, May 11, 2022.
The Cervical Cancer Prevention and Training Centre (CCPTC) in Catholic Hospital, Battor…
Protocols for ‘authorities’ in health institutions,…
Saturday, May 7, 2022.
I have been thinking about some questions for health workers in health institutions in…
Launch of CCPTC Screening Atlas 2 (HPV Lesions)
Friday, May 6, 2022.
Cervical Cancer Prevention and Training Centre (CCPTC)
Catholic Hospital, Battor.
To be…
Apex beat – failed first clinical examination
Wednesday, April 1, 2020.
I failed my first clinical examination in medicine (the first and last time I failed a…
Cervical cancer prevention – When trying to settle for ‘the…
Saturday, April 30, 2022.
I have had discussions along these lines many times with senior medical doctors (many of…
Wanted: A new national system for recording maternal mortalities in Ghana (2)
Saturday, April 23, 2022.
In my first piece, I wrote:
What new system of recording maternal mortality do I…
Wanted: A new national system for recording maternal mortalities in Ghana
Friday, July 30, 2021.
About 8 years ago, a medical superintendent in one of our hospitals in Ghana got very angry…
Team CCPTC in Tema General Hospital for cervical precancer screening
Thursday, April 14, 2022.
The team from the Cervical Cancer Prevention and Training Centre (CCPTC) in Catholic…