From
Dr. Marc Levitt
cincinnati children's hospital medical team in Korle Bu
With Dr. Marc Levitt · hosted by Dr. Thomas Nsoeje
Part of
Anorectal Malformation 100 items
Chapter 1 of 3 · Surgical Management
Program overview
Medical outreach program overview and clinical scope
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What the experts said
Ghana was selected as an ideal location to create a West African center for colorectal problems because they already had very good expertise and infrastructure to handle complex cases.
The vision is to create in Ghana a center where children from all of Africa could come for colorectal problems.
34 doctors from the US, the Netherlands, Israel, and South Africa came to Ghana to perform surgery on children with complex surgical problems.
More than 25 children with birth defects benefited from operations at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.
The team donated medical items and equipment worth $75,000 US dollars to the hospital.
The medical outreach was carried out at the pediatric Colorectal Center, which handles deformities associated with the colon, rectum and anus.
This was the second time the Cincinnati Children's Hospital team has operated in Ghana.
The colorectal deformities are such that a child cannot pass bowel movements naturally through the anus.
Dr. Mark Levitt says if emergency surgery is not conducted in such cases, the complication may be life threatening.
Some colorectal deformities could be genetic.
The hospital has collaborated with the Cincinnati Children's Hospital medical team for the past 4 years.
During the medical camps, complex colorectal cases are taken care of.