Dormaa Presbyterian Hospital to perform free surgery to correct deformities

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By
Samira Larbie, GNA

Accra, Jan. 29, GNA –
The Dormaa Presbyterian Hospital in the Dormaa Central Municipality of the Bono
Region, has announced that it would be performing free plastic surgery in March
2020, to bring relief to some Ghanaians with deformities.

This would be done
by a team of plastic surgeons from the United States (US) and the exercise is
going to be for three days.

Mr. Yiadom Boakye, a
Physician Assistant and the Hospital’s Coordinator of Periodic Health Services,
told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that, screening, to determine who should
benefit, had already started and would end on February 17.

The team of surgeons
from the US, visited the facility, last year, and successfully corrected a
cleft lip defect in a one-year old boy.

“As part of our
preparations to host them, we have created 
a screening point at the Hospital’s main Out Patients Department (OPD)
for prospective clients to get assessed and have pictures taken for subsequent
forwarding to the team to enable them organize logistics for the
programme,” he stated.

“We are hopeful
that the team can provide surgical intervention for about 40 to 50 cases during
the period.”

These would involve
skin grafting, cleft lips and palate, contractures, birth deformities requiring
reconstructions, and post-burns deformities, lumps and bumps, hernia (all
types), keloids, lipoma, thyroglossal cyst and goitre.

The surgery would
come at no cost to any of the beneficiary patients.

He, however, advised
that patients kept their National Health Insurance cards active to cover
expenses of their stay in the hospital.

“If some of the
medicines are beyond our limit then we will do out-sourcing which clients will
have to pay for”, he added.

GNA