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AMPATH Ghana is facilitating the establishment of a new state-of-the-art molecular diagnostic laboratory at Tamale Teaching Hospital that will significantly improve speed and capacity for laboratory testing of not only COVID-19, but also HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and chronic diseases.
AMPATH partners in Ghana are creating new relationships with organizations such as the Afya Foundation whose mission is to improve global healthcare delivery by providing access to medical equipment in underserved and compromised health systems worldwide.
Dr. Amanda Klinger, a clinical assistant professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and a hospitalist at Bellevue Hospital Center, and Dr. Odalys Rivera, head of the Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics at the UDS School of Medicine, have begun collaborating in a series of lectures for 4th- and 6th-year Ghanaian medical students. Topics include infectious diseases and clinical pharmacology.
As cases spiked in both Ghana and the U.S., clinical teams from NYU, UDS and TTH exchanged protocols, guidelines, and recommendations for managing patients with COVID, triage protocols, and preventing COVID infection among health care staff.
Faculty from NYUGSOM and UDS-SoM are training OB/GYN specialists at TTH to use ultrasound guided imaging to manage complex obstetric and gynecological cases.