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The 37 Military Hospital is a specialist hospital located in Accra, [1] on the main road between the Kotoka International Airport and central Accra. [2] It is the largest military hospital in the Republic of Ghana after the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.
The major tissues affected are nerves and muscles, where irreversible damage starts to occur after 4–6 hours of cessation of blood supply. [4] Skeletal muscle, the major tissue affected, is still relatively resistant to infarction compared to the heart and brain because its ability to rely on anaerobic metabolism by glycogen stored in the cells may supply the muscle tissue long enough for ...
Charles Osei Asibey is the President of the Ghana Armwrestling Federation. [4] Husseini Akueteh is the head referee of the Ghana Armwrestling Federation. [5] Ghana's National Sports Authority recognised the Ghana Armwrestling Federation as the 40th sporting federation to be solely responsible for the development and promotion of armwrestling in ...
In precolonial Ghana, infectious diseases were the main cause of morbidity and mortality. [1] The modern history of health in Ghana was heavily influenced by international actors such as Christian missionaries, European colonists, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. [2]
Name Image Caliber Type Origin Notes Pistols Browning Hi-Power [1]: 9×19mm: Semi-automatic pistol Belgium Submachine guns Sten [2]: 9×19mm: Submachine gun United Kingdom Sterling [3]
A Ghanaian man in a wheelchair. The Ghana Statistical Service reports from their 2021 census indicate that approximately eight percent (2,098,138 individuals) of the Ghanaian population experience some form of disability, with a higher prevalence among females (8.8%) than males (6.7%). [1]
Knee injury in contact sports, and jumping, deceleration, and pivoting in non-contact sports and activities cause anterior cruciate ligament injury. [23] Collateral Ligament Injury: An injury to a partially flexed knee can damage the medial collateral ligament – the ligament stretching along the inner edge of the knee. A forceful medial blow ...
Acute limb ischemia may also be caused by traumatic disruption of blood flow to a limb, which may present with either hard signs or soft signs of vascular injury. [15] Hard signs include pulsatile bleeding, expanding hematomas (collections of blood), or absent distal pulses, and must be taken to surgery emergently.