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Total knee replacement surgery at Tamale Teaching Hospital

Tamale Teaching Hospital Performs First Total Knee Replacement Surgery

On September 13, 2024, Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) successfully conducted its first total knee replacement surgery. The hospital’s Orthopaedics Sub-BMC team performed the surgery on a 58-year-old woman who had been suffering from severe knee pain, especially at night, for the past three years. Growing Expertise in Orthopaedics This significant achievement comes after the team’s earlier success …

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Ghana Declares Public Health Emergency After Detection of Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus in Koforidua

The Ministry of Health has declared a public health emergency. This came following the discovery of a circulating Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in Koforidua, Eastern Region. The virus was detected in an environmental sample during routine polio surveillance by the Polio Laboratory at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), a World Health …

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