HOPEXCHANGE MEDICAL CENTRE, GHANA
For Medical Care, Education and Sustainable Development
The Need
By 2015, the poorest countries in Africa are likely to have a rising proportion of those living in extreme poverty, lacking a primary school education and dying before the age of 5.
Project Description
The HopeXchange Medical Centre is an under construction 80-bed medical facility located in Kumasi, Ghana, built through the generosity of the people of Malta. Kumasi is a city of more than 1.5 million people in the heart of Sub-Saharan Africa. The Centre will provide high quality sub-specialty medical training and patient care in various fields of medicine, with a particular emphasis on female cancers, HIV/AIDS, malaria, craniofacial malformations, ophthalmology and neurology. HopeXchange has created special alliances, bringing together top-ranking local and international experts to work collaboratively, with the full support of the major Ghanaian health, civic and religious institutions.
Hospital Facility
The HopeXchange Medical Centre will serve as a regional hub for the delivery of much needed specialized medical training and patient services. The Centre will analyze major barriers to access and delivery of healthcare in Ghana and other limited resource settings in Africa, and identify innovative strategies of intervention. When fully operational, the Centre will feature, among other facilities: three surgical operating theatres, female and paediatric wards, outpatient centre, intensive care unit, laboratory services, diagnostic imaging services, pharmacy and telemedicine technology.
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| CAUSES OF POVERTY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA |
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On average, 45 to 50 percent of Sub-Saharan Africans live below the poverty line - a much higher proportion than in any region of
the world except South Asia.
The consequences of poverty often reinforce its complex causes, exacerbating the problem. A recent study has identified the
following as the main causes of poverty:
- Inadequate access to employment opportunities;
- Inadequate physical assets, such as land and capital, and minimal access by the poor to credit even on a small scale;
- Inadequate access to markets where the poor can sell goods and services;
- Inadequate access to assistance for those living at the margin and those victimized by transitory poverty;
- Lack of participation; failure to draw the poor into the design of development programs.
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People
Total population 21.4 million
HIV prevalence 15-49 2.2%
Tuberculosis death rate 52/100,000 population
Malaria death rate (children under 5) 448/100,000 population
Infant mortality rate:
Total: 52.22 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 55.1 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 49.25 deaths/1,000 live births
Death rate:
10.67 deaths/1,000 population
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 74.8%
male: 82.7%
female: 67.1%
Languages:
Asante 14.8%,
Ewe 12.7%,
Fante 9.9%,
Boron (Brong) 4.6%,
Dagomba 4.3%,
Dangme 4.3%,
Dagarte (Dagaba) 3.7%,
Akyem 3.4%,
Ga 3.4%,
Akuapem 2.9%,
other 36.1% (includes English)
(2000 census)
Electricity:
Only 15% of the population is supplied with electricity, the figure dropping to 4% for those living in rural areas.
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