Emergency Medicine (EM) Day originated from the European Society of Emergency Medicine (EUSEM) and is celebrated every year worldwide by different cadre of health care workers involved in emergency medical services. The day designated for this celebration is the 27th May annually. It is a day set aside internationally to unite the world population and decision makers, to think and talk about emergency medicine and emergency medical care. Every year, a theme is generated to fulfill this agenda. This year’s theme was: ‘’ Your Safety - Our Priority”. Safety for patients who need care, attention and relief from pain and disease as well as safety for healthcare workers who need to have secure working places, reasonable working hours and good health.

Dedicated telephone numbers for essential and urgent services at various directorates/units
8:00AM to 5:00 PM - Monday to Friday.

Five (5) new confirmed cases on the 20th of March 2020. All five were reported from Greater Accra Region.

--- 29-year-old Ghanaian lady; resident of Accra; no history of travel; sample confirmed positive in the laboratory
--- 34-year-old Ghanaian lady resident of Accra; contact of a confirmed case at place of work; sample confirmed positive in the laboratory
--- 53-year-old Ghanaian male, resident of Tema; no history of travel, no evidence of close contact with confirmed case; sample confirmed positive in the laboratory
--- 41-year-old Ghanaian male; arrived in Ghana by KLM on the 15 March 2020; indicated exposure with family members in Amsterdam exhibiting respiratory symptoms and also on the flight with some passengers sneezing and coughing; sample confirmed positive in the laboratory.
--- 36-year-old Ghanaian male; resident of Paris, France; date of arrival in Ghana unconfirmed; no evidence of contact with infected person;

This brings to a total of sixteen (16) confirmed cases in Ghana, with no death.

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Nyaho Medical Centre, Ghana’s premier group medical Practice as part of it’s mission to transform lives of patients by surpassing expectation in healthcare and inspire hope for a better Africa, has expanded its emergency unit from a four (4) to a ten (10) -bedded facility at its Airport branch in Accra.

Pulse Ghana’s Emmanuel Ayamga recounts the events which led to the tragic death of over 127 football fans during a game between rivals Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko in 2001.

It was the worst 90 minutes in African football history. Screams and wails could be heard from a country mile. The streets of Accra were dead silent too, as all the rowdiness, noise and attention switched to the various hospitals and clinics in Ghana’s capital, Accra.

It started like any other normal rain on a cool night with great promise to nourish crops and fill reservoirs but it turned out to be a violent rain of death, a long sad night of pain, fire, anguish and more deaths.

June 3, 2015 will forever remain indelible in the minds of many, a blot on a city, a day of great depression to a nation.

Ghana is making the needed progress in providing a world-class health emergency care, with the graduation of 15 trained specialist emergency physicians slated for Saturday. They had successfully completed their residency training in emergency medicine at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi, the nation’s second largest referral facility. 

The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital( KATH) Emergency Training Center has supported the training of 15 emergency physicians and 80 nurses over the last five years.The is part of efforts to reduce accident and trauma-related death, with the introduction of emergency medicine practice and training in Ghana, supported by the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI). The five-year initiative is collaboration among KATH, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and Michigan University, USA.

Dr.Eno Biney is an emergency medicine specialist at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, the second-largest city in Ghana. She’s part of a new cohort of health workers that are changing the way emergency care happens in the country.See Dr. Eno Biney on the cover of Impact magazine. This issue is all about health workers.“I chose to specialize in emergency medicine because I realized that it was one of the most lacking specialties in our country,” Eno says. “There wasn’t any form of organized emergency treatment of patients.”