InciSiON Ghana Maiden Magazine - Know your Executives 2020-2022

Our VISION

To promote access to safe, affordable, timely and quality surgical care across Ghana, especially in the deprived areas.

To be a voice of hope and inspiration signifying the accessibility of surgical care is possible through massive advocacy, collaboration and participation.

The paragon of timely and imperative surgical and anaesthetic care with geographic equity.

Our MISSION

1. To bring together Ghanaian medical students and early career physicians, thus providing a platform to develop skills in advocacy, education and research capacity.

2. To provide a platform to mentor and hone budding surgeons, obstetricians and anaesthetists to contribute to the vision of Global Surgery, both nationally and internationally by extension.

3. To achieve equitable access to safe surgical care through partnerships with relevant stakeholders and advocacy for policy inclusion through research.

4. To achieve improved access to safe, affordable and quality surgical care through expansion of the number, adequate distribution and improvement in the performance of surgical care providers through practice, study and research.

5. To help drive improved accessibility to surgical, anaesthetic and obstetric care, regardless of the location or background of the person, thus ensuring health equity for all.

6. Advocating for the provision of safe perioperative management, anaesthetic and obstetric care for all surgical conditions through study, research and improved practice.

Dr Anyomih, Theophilus TeDDy Kojo ChAir

Message from the Chair

It is my distinct pleasure to welcome you to the official magazine of InciSioNGhana. As you peruse this, you will be introduced to an organization that has a vast national and global reach and a most noble mission.

It has been an honor and a privilege serving as the founding chair of InciSioNGhana, it is amazing to see what we have achieved in the last couple of years.

Since its inception, InciSioN-Ghana has focused on its mission on education and raising awareness on the message of global surgery of safe affordable and timely surgical, anaesthesia and obstetric care irrespective of geographical location.

We have laid out initiatives aimed to support the development of academic surgeons across the spectrum from medical student to residents, and the incorporation of social media to better disseminate information and to broaden the reach of our society.

Everything we do aligns with our goal of moving the field of global surgery forward to provide better care for patients everywhere.

Through our mother association (InciSioN Global) and network of members in over 54 countries we are able to provide access to an array of opportunities to medical students/Junior doctors interested in global health/global surgery that no other organization in the world can offer.

These endeavors have been highly successful, largely due to the immense work of the current executive leadership, members involved and support from InciSioN Global: but the challenge remains in ensuring that our mission and vision, and the message of equity in healthcare persists in the ever changing healthcare landscape.

In the coming years we will continue to support the essential role of surgery in Universal Health Coverage by growing our membership, building our networks and our community, and fostering the relationships that are so special in global surgery, between different specialties, people in different countries, and people at different ends of their careers.

If you are a medical student, junior doctor or resident in Ghana, please consider this my personal invitation to you to join InciSioNGhana, a vibrant and diverse association. As you continue your visit to our SoMe handles, don’t forget to check the links to some of our other affiliated websites.

The forward momentum, the initiatives, and the growth of InciSioN-Ghana are exciting to watch, and I cannot wait to see the directions the society takes in the next several years!

Thank you again for the privilege and honor of serving as your Chair. See you all in the next Global Surgery Symposium In November 2022.

Mr Theophilus Teddy Kojo Anyomih (MBChB,MSc,MRCS-Eng) Chair,InciSioN-Ghana HST,UK

Secretary

Dr Osei-Poku, Dorcas is a specialist surgeon with the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons pursuing an MSc in Surgical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. She is also a recent graduate of the Global Surgery course offered by the University of Oxford.

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Beyond a world of global surgical inequity, Despite geographical diversity, Together in unity, Can we dream of a world with safe surgical equity, And timely affordable surgical, obstetric and anaesthesia care ubiquity. ~ Dorcas Osei-Poku

Dr Osei-Poku, Dorcas Secretary

I graduated from the University for Development Studies-SMS (UDS-SMS) where I served as National Exchange Officer and Exchange Officer for Federation of Ghana Medical Students Association(FGMSA) and UDS-SMS respectively. I am also a founding member and served as a Board member of Rotaract Club of UDS.

Dr Joseph Kebo Awindaogo Advocacy Team Lead

I have a keen interest in research, advocacy, medical student and junior doctors education, and empowerment through mentorship.

A Specialist Surgeon of The Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons and the West Africa College of Surgeons with an area of interest in Neurosurgery.

Dr Amadu,

Munira Education Team Lead

Meet Dr. Amadu, Munira a 2nd year general surgery resident at the Tamale Teaching Hospital. She is the Education Team Lead of InciSioN Ghana and believes that access to safe surgery should be a right and not a privilege granted to the few that can afford. She graduated from St. Louis Secondary School in 2008 and was accepted into University For Development Studies Medical school. She graduated from medical school in 2016 and has worked in Cape Coast and Tamale Teaching Hospital as a house officer. She stayed in Tamale Teaching Hospital as a medical officer and started her surgical residency training there in 2021.

InciSioN Ghana Education Team

The Education Team has successfully held a total of 3 seminars aimed at giving medical students and doctors who are undecided on their choice of speciality the chance to interact with specialists, consultants and professors of various specialties.

The 3 specialties hosted were ENT, General Surgery and Anaesthesia.

Our goal is to hold subsequent seminars with for other Surgical, Obstetric and Anaesthesiology fields with Neurosurgery as our next engagement before the end of the year.

We look for forward to educating as many as we can about Global Surgery and equipping the younger generation of health professionals with the knowledge set needed to be a global surgery advocate.

Dr Wondoh, Paul Research Team Lead Research Team LEAD

InciSioN Research Mentorship program

“Only through a unified commitment to research, advocacy, policy development, and investment, accompanied by coordinated local and international action, will this Commission's vision of universal access to safe, affordable surgical and anaesthesia care when needed be realised in our global community.”

~ Global Surgery 2030: evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development.

The need to empower medical students and early career physician with the necessary research skills is prudent hence the InciSioN Ghana Research Mentorship Program (RMP), inspired by the successfully-run Global PaedSurg Research Training Fellowship which was organized by the Global Initiative for Children’s Surgery (GICS), was launched in March, 2022 and is currently running.

The InciSioN Ghana RMP entailed 10 didactic online webinars on undertaking a research project from inception to producing a publishable manuscript in a year long program. Having received over 500 applications not only from Ghana but also from InciSioN members from Bangladesh, Brazil, Nigeria, India and Lebanon, 12 local mentors and 9 international mentors have been matched to 29 mentees who are working on independent high-impact studies. 109 mentees grouped into 22 teams are undertaking various systematic review meta-analytical research projects according to similar interests.

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The Audiovisual team sees to the designing of all the Visual and Audio contents required by Incision Ghana, running and managing events and other recourses on our social media platforms and working in collaboration with the other teams in promotion of their activities. Join the Audiovisual team and share your creative ideas, expertise and experiences with InciSioN Ghana.

Dr John F Busuuri

TEAM LEAD

Dr Abiti Gifty Enyonam FINANCIAL TEAM LEAD Aspiring Obstetrician-Gynaecologist

As a Medical Doctor working at a periurban health facility where she experiences firsthand the brunt of inequity in access to surgical care, the decision to join InciSioN Ghana (a group of medical professionals and students who through various activities contribute to bridging this gap) was an absolute necessity to my professional development.

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Setting up of official transaction accounts and platforms.

Innovativewaystoraisefunds especially in the wake of donorfatigue.

Supporting other teams in designing less capital intensive programmes, with donor appeal and yet impactful.

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The finance team intends to develop a robust financial frameworkthatensuresInciSioNGhana has the requisite resources whenever necessary through:

Our Achievements The Future

Advocacy Held multiple seminars introducingmedicalstudentstothe conceptofGlobalSurgery.

Human Resource Establishment of mentorship programs to encourage students and early-career health professionals to pursue careers in the fields which are deficient in skilledlabour.

Education

Education seminars aimed at giving medical students and doctors who are undecided on their choice of speciality the chancetointeractwithspecialists, consultants and professors of variousspecialties.

Training Equip a workforce to tackle the burden of surgical diseases through continuous on the job training and training of new specialists.

Partnership

Research A year-long Research Mentorship Program

Form effective partnerships with local and global organisations for public education, health research andtraining.

About Us

Launched on the 29th November, 2020, InciSioN Ghana operates as a non-profit, non-governmental organisation that seeks to be a Global Surgery advocate.

As one of the many national working groups of International Student Surgical Network, we actively pursue this mission through advocacy, education and research. Our current membership of 153 students and early-career health professionals are fairly distributed across the country with a common aim of promoting access to safe, affordable, timely and quality surgical care across Ghana.

Become a Member

Join InciSioN Ghana membership by clicking the link below to register https://forms.gle/JZ5VhFuPaVuP6RVN8

Be sure to input your correct email so you can receive up-to-date info on all our programs.

You can learn more about InciSioN & Global Surgery here: https://incisionetwork.org

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