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Ghana is a developing country in West Africa with a population of about 25 million. Medical illnesses in Ghana overlap with those in developed countries, but infection, trauma, and women's health problems are much more prominent.  Despite these limitations, Ghana has established a relatively successful national medical insurance system, and the quality of medical practice is high, at least where it is available. Ghana also has a well established and sophisticated administrative structure for the supervision of medical education and accreditation, but it has proven very difficult to extend medical training to rural areas, where health care facilities are particularly short of personnel.

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In 2003, the Ghanaian government introduced the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) which dramatically improved the health situation in the country and eliminated the need for Ghanaian citizens to pay for their treatment up front. The new system also increased the accessibility of healthcare for Ghana’s poorest citizens.

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The public insurance system allows any resident  to access medical care. Ghana is, however, still very much lacking in terms of quality of care, and facilities.

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Private hospitals provide, on average, a better quality of treatment and have more modern equipment than public institutions.
Public hospitals tend to be overcrowded and lacking in quality, especially compared to developed countries.
There are 7 hospital specializing in gynecologist, 2 in pediatrics.The majority of hospitals are general, in that they focus on general medicine and don’t offer a full range of treatments. If you require specialized treatment you will have to travel to certain hospitals, and sometimes abroad.

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Documentary on the status of Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme

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Despite facing many limitations, Ghana has made tremendous strides in promoting medical care in a moderately large and very complicated country.

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Specialist physicians are relatively few in Ghana as most  acquire their formal specialty training abroad, and most stay there. There are

only a couple of neurologists in the country. There is one clinically active neurologist  in Ghana, at  the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. There are just four or five neurosurgeons in the country.

The  two main teaching hospitals have CT scanners, as do a few

medium-sized  cities  and  private  clinics. The first MRI scanner  was installed at Korle Bu in 2006.

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Infections are a primary reason for hospital visits and admissions. Malaria is rampant, and its burden is tremendous. Typhus infection

is common and is a major cause of intestinal perforation and urgent  surgery. A large  percentage of emergency and critically ill patients are young  women who are pregnant and many from complications of botched abortions.