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The University of Ghana Medical Centre is a quaternary medical and research centre located on the campus of the University of Ghana in Accra, Ghana. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] History
Charles Odamtten Easmon or C. O. Easmon, popularly known as Charlie Easmon, FRCSEd, FICS, FGA, FWACS, GM (22 September 1913 – 19 May 1994) was a medical doctor and academic who became the first Ghanaian to formally qualify as a surgeon specialist [1] and the first Dean of the University of Ghana Medical School.
The University of Ghana Medical School also UGMS is the medical school of Ghana's first public research institution, the University of Ghana. It is currently located at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra. [1] [2] The medical school was first planned in 1919, but took its first students in 1962. [1] [2]
It was built by the government of Japan and donated to the government and people of Ghana in honour of the Japanese researcher Hideyo Noguchi, [6] [7] who researched Yellow fever in Ghana and died from the disease in the country in 1928. [8] Test samples for the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana are performed and confirmed by the institute. [9] [10]
Korle-Bu gained teaching hospital status in 1962, when the University of Ghana Medical School (UGMS) was established for the training of medical doctors. The University of Ghana Medical School and five other constituent schools are now subsumed under the College of Health Sciences to train an array of health professionals. All the institutions ...
Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus received up to $46 million in a grant to help develop an innovative treatment to cure blindness.
Adu-Gyamfi is a medical doctor by profession. [3] In 2002, she was the National co-ordinator on AIDS program at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra. [11] She is also a founding fellow of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons and also a fellow of the West African College of Physicians.
In December 2022, Ghana’s inflation rate hit 54.1% year-on-year - its highest rate in more than two decades - spurring protests over alleged economic mismanagement.