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University of Utah Health Care U Launches Global Health Initiative |
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The Global Health Initiative provides an umbrella organization for globally ... Students who train in Ghana learn valuable lessons that they can apply to. MORE... |
KATH to establish Intensive Care Foundation |
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17 May 2010, Ghana Broadcasting CorporationThe Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi is to set up an Intensive Care Foundation to solicit donations from individuals and corporate bodies. The purpose is to generate the requisite financial resources to properly cater for all critically ill or injured patients who need Intensive Care Unit (ICU) services. Professor Ohene Adjei, Chief Executive Officer of the hospital announced this to close the 10th Annual National Update Course in Anesthesia organized by the Directorate of Anesthesia and Intensive Care of the hospital in collaboration with the University of Utah of the United States of America. MORE... |
GHANA: The U’s Global Health Initiative Flagship |
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unBounded, Fall 2010, vol. 1, No. 1.The Ghana program through the University of Utah Global Health Alliance has become the flagship of global health efforts on campus and a model that is spreading to other parts of the globe through the Global Health Initiative. “The students want to help somebody,” said Dr. DeVon Hale, and this altruistic approach sprouted the global health endeavors of the U School of Medicine in the early ‘90s. Dr. Hale and his colleagues at the School of Medicine obliged these students and arranged for them to travel across the globe to help those in need of medical attention. Unfortunately some of these students found themselves in situations that required skills beyond their training, Dr Hale said. They were expected to perform medical procedures they were not qualified to do and often |
The U’s School of Medicine to host Global Health Conference |
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May 3, 2010, University of Utah students connecting with the World
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