Dr. Senyo Gudugbe
Dr. Senyo Gudugbe
Surgical Resident, Ghana
Dr. Gudugbe is working at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra. He studied medicine in Tver, Russia and came back to Ghana after passing his exams in 2007. There he became head of the Surgical Unit in the rural Holy Family Hospital in Techiman, Brong Ahafo Region. Since September 2013 he is surgeon in training at the West Africa College of Surgeons (WACS).
Dr. Gudugbe would like to present the following paper:
Improving Health Outcomes in Low Income Countries: Addressing Challenges in the Management of Paediatric Intussusception in a Resource Deprived Setting.
Summary:
Intussusception is a leading course of intestinal obstruction in the paediatric population and its management can be challenging especially in centres with inadequate resources where this problem becomes even more daunting. We reviewed 19 cases of intussusception in the paediatric age group, which were managed by medical officers in a resource poor facility in a deprived part of Ghana. We reviewed outcomes of cases treated by open surgery, and that of case managed by pneumatic reduction. We highlight the use of an improvised set up aimed at achieving pneumatic reduction thereby minimising operative rates.
Extra information:
After his presence at our symposium Dr Senyo Gudugbe is invited by the German Rotary Volunteer Doctors to stay for 4 weeks with them in Quedlinburg, Germany. The purpose of the invitation is to make Dr. Senyo acquainted with the European way of hospital management.
Sponsor of his stay and travel expenses:
