By Leahy Winter | Program Manager
Drs. Anya Gushchin and Brent Hayek led an oculoplastics workshop at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi, Ghana from April 23rd-30th. The training consisted of both lectures and hands-on clinical training with KATH Drs. Armah, Agyeman and Gifty; oculoplastic nurses Vida and Hannah; and ophthalmology residents.
Prior to the workshop, the KATH team gathered together oculoplastics patients requiring specialized treatment, many of whom would not have received care otherwise. A total of 35 patients were seen over the course of the program. The whole oculoplastic team was trained in fitting of ocular prosthesis and made real headway in making an institutional change to place a conformer at the time of enucleation/evisceration surgery to prevent socket contractures. This is a perfect example of how HCP is able to bring together American and Ghanaian ophthalmic professionals to provide high quality treatment and improve overall eye care.
A special thank you goes out to the nurses and anesthesiology team and the OMFS division who lent their bone saw thus making an orbital case possible for the first time. We would like to also recognize Mr. Roland Scott, an ocularist from Chicago, who donated 29 prostheses and many conformers for the patients of KATH.
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