News / Objectives to December 2007

1. To satisfactorily continue and complete the current trainee's 15 months training programme prior to his return to Ghana in Spring 2007.


2. To commence planning the funding and establishment of West Africa’s first highly specialised Burns and Trauma Treatment Centre in Accra in conjunction with the Ghana Reconstructive Plastic Surgery Units in 2006/7.


3. To plan and implement 2 Pan African highly specialised training courses in Ghana in hand surgery and cleft lip and palate treatment in 2007.


4. To complete the development of a long term permanent training curriculum for present and future undergraduates during 2007.


5. To identify 4 suitable candidates for intensive training from 2007 – 2011 and encourage and nurture the most promising prospects.


6. To encourage the creation of permanent physiotherapist positions in the Accra and Kumasi Units unit: support and secure them through close contact with senior UK plastic surgery specialist therapists during 2007.


7. To advance quality and quantity of anaesthetic availability in the plastic surgery units by a specific training programme monitored by consultant UK anaesthetists in 2007. Includes short training periods in UK.


8. To maintain the rate of provision of new vital equipment for the units as well as shipments of medical material surplus to UK NHS needs.


9. To maintain and increase the number of medical trainers from UK visiting Ghana in close liaison with the Ghanaian medical staff.