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Nkwata Hospital theatre named after
Prof Quartey
Nkwanta (V/R), Nov. 28, Ghanadot/GNA - The Nkwanta District
Hospital has a new theatre complex named after the late
Professor J.M.K. Quartey, a renowned urologist and past team
leader of Operation Ghana Medical Mission (OGMM).
Dr Koku Awoonor-Williams, Nkwanta District Director of
Health Services announced this when a 12-member OGMM team,
led by Professor Hector Addo, a dermatologist at the Korle-Bu
Teaching Hospital, visited the area.
Members of the team were on a five-day outreach programme
during which they provided specialist health care to the
communities.
Dr. Awoonor-Williams said the complex had been named after
the late Prof. Quartey for his immense contribution towards
the development of the hospital.
Prof Quartey and three others died in a car crash while
returning from a similar outreach in the Brong Ahafo region
two years ago.
Dr Awoonor-Williams said the OGMM outreach programme in the
Nkwanta district was the brainchild of the Prof. Quartey,
adding that the team since 1998 had carried out 14 outreach
programmes in the area.
During the five-day programme, the team undertook 48
surgical cases such as vaginal fistula repair, thyroidectomy,
tumours, orthopaedic and gynaecological cases.
GNA
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