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Cardiology
High blood pressure is the commonest thing we treat, and the least felt
Dr. Kwabena Mensah on why a third of the adults who walk into our clinics have hypertension, why almost none of them arrived because of it, and what a first reading actually means.
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Internal medicine
When a fever needs a test and when it needs an ambulance
The line between a malaria that can be treated at home and one that cannot is narrower than most families expect. Five signs that should put you in a car.
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Internal medicine
Living with type 2 diabetes on a Ghanaian plate
Our dietitian on banku, kenkey, waakye and jollof — what portion sizes actually do to a blood sugar reading, written for a kitchen rather than a textbook.
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Surgery
What day-case surgery means, and why you can go home the same evening
Keyhole repairs have changed what an operation costs a patient in time as well as money. What happens between arriving at eight and leaving at six.
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Paediatrics
A crisis plan for parents of children with sickle cell
Dr. Adjoa Adjei sets out the plan we give every family on the ward: what to watch, what to give, when to ring, and what to bring when you come.
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Ophthalmology
Glaucoma takes sight quietly, and West Africa has more of it
Why an eye pressure check belongs in a routine review after forty, and what the test is actually like — it takes ninety seconds and does not hurt.
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Maternity
Booking early is the single biggest thing you can do for a pregnancy
The first appointment sets everything that follows. What we check at booking, why the timing matters, and what happens if you come late.
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The hospital
What happens at 07:30, and why it has not changed since 2004
The wards, theatre and A&E meet every morning for eleven minutes. It is the least glamorous thing we do and the one we would defend hardest.
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Accident & Emergency
Open every hour of every day, including the ones nobody plans for
Emergency line +233 30 274 1999. Ambulances dispatched from 14 Nii Nortei Nyanchi Street, Dzorwulu, Accra. If you can walk in, walk in — a triage nurse sees everyone at the door.
