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.