Prof. Akosa to address patient safety at Healthcare Quality Forum

Ghanaians have over the years been denied the provision of a safe and consistent health service due to yearly strike actions of health professionals. The poor suffer most from these actions with blame-game taking control of the situation while the sick lie aloof in despair.

Prof. Agyeman Badu Akosa, a pathologist and veteran politician, would address the Healthcare Quality GhanaWeb Forum 2013, which is organized to look critically at the quality of healthcare delivery in Ghana and its economic and human implications.

Speaking from a pathological point of view, Prof. Akosa would touch on issues of patient safety with regard to the healthcare delivery in the country.

The Forum which is the first of an annual gathering would have healthcare professionals and non-healthcare professionals talk about quality improvement in healthcare delivery, patient safety and patient satisfaction in Ghana.

Prof. Agyeman Badu Akosa would be speaking at the Forum with Dr. Joseph Boateng, a Physician Specialist and Convener of the Forum, Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, Cardio-Thoracic Surgeon, Dr. Eli Atikpui, Registrar, Medical and Dental Council and Dr. Lydia Dzane-Selby, Director of Claims, NHIS/NHIA.

Others are Dr. Daniel Asare, CEO, Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Dr. Francis Agyemang-Yeboah, Rev. Veronica Darko, Registrar, Nurses and Midwives Council, Mr. Joseph Kodjo Nsiah Nyoagbe, Registrar, Pharmacy Council, Mr. Samuel Paulos, Founder and Director Gateway 4 Youth and Dr. Edoardo Peterlini, Team Leader, TRAQUE.

Prof. Akosa has been a Consultant Histopathologist and Clinical Director of Pathology in the UK, Professor and Head of Department of Pathology in the University of Ghana Medical School, Director General of the Ghana Health Service and Presidents of the Ghana Medical Association and the Commonwealth Medical Association.

He is on the Executive Board of the African Population Health Research Centre and Executive Director of Healthy Ghana. He is a recipient of the second highest award in Ghana, Companion of the Order of the Volta for Public and Medical Services, Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Science and the Ghana Medical Association.

Prof Akosa is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, West African College of Physicians, Ghana College of Physicians and holds an Executive Masters in Governance and Leadership. He is an adjunct Professor of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration and teaches on Leadership and Governance programmes.

He Chairs the French English Exchange Programme (FEEP), Vitamilk Foundation, Cleaner Communities Network and Express Life Boards. He crusades on the Wider Social Determinants of Health including Lifestyles.

The Forum would be at the Conference Auditorium of the Ghana College of Physicians & Surgeons in Accra on November 27 and 28.

Visit health.ghanaweb.com to register for free