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Organization Contact Information

Name: Ghana Health Service, Mampong
Street 1: MAMPONG MUNICIPAL HEALTH DIRECTORATE
Street 2: P. O. Box 424
City: ASANTE MAMPONG
Province: MAMPONG MUNICIPAL
Post Code: 00233
Country: Ghana
Phone: (233)244-010801
Organization Email: nyarkojectey@yahoo.co.uk
Web Site: http://www.ghanahealthservice.org
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Focal Point Contact Information

Salutation: Mr
First Name: Emmanuel
Last Name: Dwomoh
Title: Senior Technical Officer - Disease Control
Email: curtesyrecords@yahoo.com
Phone: (233) 247 985670

Alternate Focal Point Contact Information

Salutation: Mr
First Name: Richard
Last Name: Ofosuhene
Title: Senior Technical Officer- Lab
Email: ekyengya@yahoo.com
Phone: (233) 202 981102

General Information

Board Constituency: Countries
Is your organization legally registered in your country: Yes
If yes, please enter your registration number:
Organization Type - Primary: Governmental Organization
Organization Type - Secondary: None
Organization Description:
1. PROMOTION OF PREVENTIVE HEALTH AND PROVISION OF QUALITY HEALTH CARE WITH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AS PILLARS FOR CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT.

2. THE REAL NEED TO SUPPORT HUMANITY TO REDUCE PAIN IS MY MOTIVATION. AND THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC BURDEN ADDRESSED BY EFFECTIVE TB MANAGEMENT IS A DRIVING FORCE.
3. OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND TREATMENT SUPPORT
 
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Specializations / Areas of Work

Advocacy
Delivery of health services and care
Research and Development

Other Organization Information

Total number of staff in your organization: 100 +
Number of full-time staff who are directly involved with TB: 100 +
Number of part-time staff who are directly involved with TB: 0
Number of volunteers who are directly involved with TB: 26 - 50
 
How did you hear about the Stop TB Partnership: Involvement in TB control provision
If you were informed or referred by another partner of the Stop TB Partnership please tell us who:
Why do you wish join the Stop TB Partnership: Involvement in Stop TB Working Groups
 
Are you a member of a Stop TB national partnership: Ghana
Are you in contact with your national TB programme: Yes
Please tell us how your organization is contributing to your country's national TB control plan:
WE COMBINE EFFECTIVELY THE HEALTH PROMOTION ACTIVITIES FOR TB AND OTHER DISEASES PREVENTION AND EARLY TREATMENT.

WE FACILITATE RELATIONAL SUPPORT FOR CONTINUOUS TREATMENT FOR CLIENTS.

OPERATIONS RESEARCH

 

Geographical Reach

Which country is your headquarters located in: Ghana
Which countries do you do operate in:
(This includes countries you are conducting activities in)
Ghana

Contribution

Please tell us how your organization will contribute to the Global Plan to Stop TB by briefly describing its involvement in any of the areas of work listed below:

TB Care Delivery:
The communities that are having TB patients are regularly engaged in education through discussions to correct misconceptions, root out stigmatization, and lobby their partnership for safer neighborhood, cooperation and TB support. The local government, traditional authorities, schools, religious groups, and the unit committees are partnered with in penetration the various strata of society with the messages of hope about TB.

Drug-Resistant TB:
Counseling of TB patients and their treatment aides has been made a continuous process, from pre-daignosis to treatment outcomes assessment. This has checked the lost to follow-up and treatment failure.

TB-HIV:
The laboratory support together with clinicians on the spot laboratory request for both TB and HIV tests, treatment and support are comprehensively done to reduce relapse and related deaths.

Laboratory Strengthening:
Or facility laboratories have records of adequate reagents. The oral quick and the first response sometimes diverge results but the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital has the "determine" to break the tie situation. Research interest in problems like this is gradually picking up.

New TB Vaccines:
We hope to be brought on board as soon as possible.

Research:
Community surveillance and prevalence survey in clusters is periodically done to appraise the detection response rates.

Declaration

Declaration of interests:
No conflict of interest.

Application date: October 30, 2015
Last updated: November 11, 2015