Sunday, May 15, 2022.
Thirteen (13) years ago, I visited some CHPS (Community-based Health Planning Services) Compounds in North Tongu District (now split into North and Central Tongu Districts) with the Public Health Nurse in Catholic Hospital, Battor. At that time, cervical screening with HPV DNA…
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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…
Two decades in Catholic Hospital, Battor: a waste of time?
Friday, April 15, 2022.
By Dr. Kofi Effah
Today marks exactly twenty years since I started work as a Medical…