Ghana to host summer school on Diagnostic Imaging

The Ghana Society for Medical Physics (GSMP) is to hold the Ghana-Norway Summer School on: "Quality Control and Radiation Protection in Diagnostic Imaging," on May 23 in Accra.

The five-day programme, to be hosted by the Korle Bu-Teaching Hospital, is the first to be organised by the GSMP in collaboration with the Radiation Protection Institute of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC).

Other collaborators include the Medical Physics Department of the Graduate School of Nuclear and Allied Health Services of the University of Ghana.

A team of lecturers, led by Professor Pal Erik Goa from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and St. Olav's University Hospital, Trodheim, Norway, would be part of the resource team for the programme.

The training is to strengthen the knowledge and experience of young Ghanaian scientists in the techniques and methods used to obtain images of the body organs in order to conduct early diagnosis of cancer and other diseases to treat them in time.

Dr Stephen Inkoom, a Medical Physicist of the Radiation Protection Institute, GAEC, said the summer school was targeted at radiation workers such as medical physicists, radiograpers, biomedical engineers, interns as well as students.