International Healthcare Volunteer’s seventeenth medical mission to Ghana West Africa (August 30 - September 14, 2019), took volunteers to Cape Coast Teaching Hospitals, KNUST Hospital Kumasi and Metropolitan Hospital. Working with our Ghanaian health professional colleagues, we cared for 650 patients and performing 36 major surgical procedures Kumasi and Metropolitan Hospital. 36 major surgical procedures
IHCV's Winter 2019 Newsletter
International Healthcare Volunteer’s seventeenth medical mission to Ghana, West Africa, took 50 volunteers to Lekma Hospital in Accra, Cape Coast Teaching Hospital and Metropolitan Hospital in Cape Coast, and Tamale Municipal Hospital in Tamale. Working with our Ghanaian health professional colleagues, IHCV volunteers cared for 420 patients, performing 70 major surgical procedures over 8 working days.
International Healthcare Volunteers began in 2001 after Dr. James Aikins lost a family member to postpartum hemorrhage in Ghana.
IHCV's Winter 2018 Newsletter
International Healthcare Volunteer’s sixteenth medical mission to Ghana, West Africa, took 40 volunteers to Lekma Hospital in Accra, Cape Coast Teaching Hospital and Metropolitan Hospital in Cape Coast, and Tamale Municipal Hospital in Tamale. Working with our Ghanaian health professional colleagues, IHCV volunteers cared for 703 patients, performing 82 major surgical procedures over 8 working days. International Healthcare Volunteers began in 2001 after Dr. James Aikins lost a family member to a postpartum hemorrhage in Ghana. Frustrated with the thought of losing a loved one to a condition easily treatable in the USA.
IHCV's Winter 2017 Newsletter
International Healthcare Volunteer’s fifteenth medical mission to Ghana, West Africa, took 29 volunteers to La General Hospital in Accra, Cape Coast Teaching Hospital and Metropolitan Hospital in Cape Coast. Working with our Ghanaian health professional colleagues, IHCV volunteers cared for 500 patients, performing 67 major surgical procedures over 9 working days.
IHCV's 2016 Winter Newsletter
IHCV’s fourteenth medical mission to Ghana, West Africa, took 36 volunteers to La General Hospital in Accra, Central Regional Hospital in Cape Coast, and KNUST University Hospital in Kumasi. Working with our Ghanaian health professional colleagues, IHCV volunteers cared for 944 patients, performing 92 surgical procedures over 10 working days.
IHCV prides itself on its focus for educational exchange between Ghanaian and IHCV medical students and residents. During the 2015 mission, IHCV volunteers attended and...
Winter 2015 Newsletter
Learn about our 13th annual Ghana medical mission, read reflections from recent mission volunteers, view photos and more.
11th Annual IHCV Global Gala & Auction “Ensuring the Future of Global Health”
Join us on Saturday, May 3, 2014 from 8:00 pm - 1:00 at The Hamilton Manor in Hamilton, New Jersey. Proceeds from this event will go toward medical missions for women and their families in under served areas of our global community. Come and be a part of this wonderful opportunity to make a difference in someone's life.
theGrio’s 100: Drs. James K. Aikins, Jr. and Charletta A. Ayers, Treating Women Worldwide
Aikins and Ayers annually lead teams of more than physicians and healthcare providers to Ghana and Jamaica. In over 10 years of service, more than 9,500 women and families have been helped by IHCV. In 2011 alone, the team performed 93 major surgeries in eight working days throughout four Ghanaian towns. They also help with preventative healthcare programs such as cervical cancer and HIV screening.
2011 Mission and Newsletter
Over forty-five volunteers participated during the tenth International Healthcare Volunteers, (IHCV) medical mission to Ghana. 2011 IHCV medical mission was extremely successful. IHCV attended to approximately 850 patients and performed ninety-three major surgeries in eight working days in four towns in Ghana – Apam, Cape Coast, Kumasi, and Mampong.
Since the inception of IHCV in 2001, the organization has taken care of 9,500 patients and performed over five hundred major surgeries. IHCV continues its annual educational endeavors by providing continued medical education (CME) to healthcare providers. IHCV collaborated with the Ghana College of Physicians and surgeons to provide the annual CME program held at Accra this past August. IHCV provides community outreach through major support to orphanages in Cape Coast and Kumasi as well as providing Blood Pressure Screening in Cape Coast. Locally, IHCV supports the New Jersey Family Health Services – an organization located in Camden that supports single mothers and their children. The single mothers are taught various parental and job skills.