About Us

In 1992 Jack Mustarde, a retired Scottish consultant plastic surgeon visiting Ghana realised that there were no plastic surgery facilities in that country and decided to do something about it.

With the blessing of Ghana's President, Jack and colleagues began to set up the first Reconstructive Plastic Surgery Unit in West Africa in the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana.

With voluntary help from a huge range of sources - including Jack's colleagues, the Ghanaian and Japanese Governments, the EU and innumerable smaller contributors, the new Plastic Surgery and Burns Centre was established and commissioned by the country's president in 1997.

Today, 3 plastic surgeons operate the Accra unit aided by visiting consultants from the UK who give their services freely for 1-2 weeks annually. A second unit with one trained plastic surgeon and another undergoing training in Munich, commenced operations in March 2001 in Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti Region.

The Ghanaian Health Service now employs over 100 staff in the Accra and Kumasi Plastic Surgery Units.

Teaching courses, covering all aspects of Plastic Surgical Techniques have been held in Ghana since March 2000.

The Need

Plastic surgery provision for Ghana's population of 18 million is only 2½% of that in the UK. Demands on its services are ever on the increase at home and from other West African countries.