Cancer care in Ghana: Poverty is the true malignancy
As an incoming fifth-year dental student beginning my clinical internship at Tamale Teaching Hospital, the major tertiary referral center for northern Ghana, I expected to refine my surgical hand and master diagnostic pathology. The fine instructors at the department made…
As an incoming fifth-year dental student beginning my clinical internship at Tamale Teaching Hospital, the major tertiary referral center for northern Ghana, I expected to refine my surgical hand and master diagnostic pathology. The fine instructors at the department made this possible, but I also got to witness firsthand the brutal arithmetic of health care access in the northern parts of Ghana.
She first presented to our oral and maxillofacial …
Cancer care in Ghana: Poverty is the true malignancy
