noeledmundsbeard

Almost like “trickle up poverty”.

Hi there!

I'm a final year medical student in the UK. I spent 2 months working in Ghana last summer (Korle Bu in accra and Oda). I found A LOT of the doctors to be at best a bit incompetent and at worse dangerous (resting an unseated cannula needle in a pool of pus and then using it to cannulate! I could go on). I also found the nurses to be absolutely terrible. Cruel (punching and slapping women in labour or patients having their dressings changed) and dangerous (one nurse sat on a line giving blood to a 12 year old girl and pulled it out. The girl later died). The nurses spent more time abusing patients and playing on their mobile phones than looking after patients.

How has your experience of the local medical professionals been? Do you find it as frustrating as I did? I expected a resource poor set up and would never blame anyone for that, but that lack of pride in their work and compassion was heartbreaking to witness. To the point I would never return to Ghana. I've travelled extensively in Africa and Ghana is the worst country I've been to!

Good luck to you all