STAFF of TTH UNDERGOES A THREE-DAY PAEDIATRIC ADVANCE LIFE SUPPORT COURSE

STAFF of TTH UNDERGOES A THREE-DAY PAEDIATRIC ADVANCE LIFE SUPPORT COURSE

A team of medical professionals comprising four professors and two post graduate medical students from the Louisville School of Medicine has trained staff of the Tamale Teaching Hospital in Paediatric Advanced Life Support Course.
The three- day training course, the first of its kind in Ghana, was aimed at giving medical doctors and nurses of the Tamale Teaching Hospital and Students of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) of the University for Development Studies, training in managing resuscitation and other emergency cases effectively especially with children.
A total of 130 staff participated in the course were taking through in Endotrachea Intubation, a technique in which a tube is used to get access to the lungs to pump air into a patient whose breathing space or airways are blocked, Cadiac Desrabrillation, using electricity or electrical energy to stimulate the heart to work and Interoesseus Access, using cannula, a needle used to access the bone to put fluid into the body.
Dr. Bukari Issah, a House Officer, expressed delight at the depth of knowledge the exercise had imparted on him particularly the demonstration sessions of the course. He said the course had given him practical experience and advanced knowledge which he will apply in his medical practice to help save lives. Madam Stella Fati Dramani, a Senior Nursing Officer, said the course had proven very beneficial since her knowledge in life support has been sharpened significantly. She mentioned that she has acquired new skill in cardiac massage.
Mr. Wewoli Bentil Awe, a medical student, on his part said he was grateful for the opportunity to have training in paediatric advanced life support even whilst in school. He said he was happy he and his colleagues are being exposed early to equip them to meet such practical challenges even before they graduate from school. He promised to pass on the knowledge he had acquired to others.
The Louisville School of Medicine team was led by Professor Jania Condurache, Assistant professor of paediatrics and Course Director.
Professor George Rogers of the Intertional Paediatric Center of the school later signed a memorandum of understanding to forge partnership and cooperation between the Louisville school of medicine and the Tamale Teaching Hospital as well as the medical school. The team described the training as highly successful.
The Chief Executive of the Tamale Teaching Hospital, Dr. Ken Sagoe, on his part thanked the team for the training and in particular the training of one of the doctors as the local resident doctor to further train personnel in tamale and other health facilities in the three northern regions.
Dr. Sagoe was grateful for the kind gesture of the donation of all medical equipment used in the training to the hospital.
The team is expected back in Ghana to organize similar training for other health institutions in the country.
Participants further requested that the course is organized frequently to be upgrading their technical know how on the routine base of the global knowledge.