Over two million people are living with hernia nationwide – Medical Director
Dr Frank Enoch Gyamfi, a Consultant General Surgeon and the Medical Director of the Berekum Holy Family Catholic Hospital in the Bono Region, has said there are over two million people currently living with hernia in Ghana.He explained that most of these people were living with the condition because of lack of access to surgery due to the limited number of medical specialists in the country, saying hernia was common among people in rural communities who often engage in manual labour.Dr Gyamfi was speaking at the closing session of a one-week training for some young medical specialists held at the Berekum Holy Family Catholic Hospital.The Ghana Hernia Society in collaboration with the United Kingdom’s National Institutes of Health Research and the Global Surgery Unit of the University of Bi...