Accra,Ghana

We arrived Wednesday, July 11, via KLM at Accra's Kotoka National Airport at 6pm to find two medical suitcases missing. By nine o'clock the missing pieces showed up, we cleared customs ( no problem) and were met by a driver of the Good Shepherd Home in Abeka/Accra. The accommodations are great and we slept soundly. We had spent the six hour layover in Amsterdam seeing the canals. Friday, Cyndy and I were shown the ear, nose and throat department at Korle-Bu Hospital, Accra by Dr. Kitcher, department head, who has done a lot of work and has an excellent facility. Later we visited the Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Elias Sory,who warmly greeted us and also made us feel welcome. The department has a Zeiss microscope in the clinic, but one optic is opaque and they can use only one eye. The department does not have loops, telescopes for laryngeal or sinus surgery. The physicians do a sub-labile approach to the pituitary using the microscope. There are no prosthesises for stapedectomies or cochlear implants. Korle-Bu Hospital, with the Ghana Medical School, is the premiere institution in the country. Sunday we are sightseeing "Osu Street", the popular nightclub street of Accra. The container with medical equipment seems to be clearing the port and customs and we will depart for Tamale perhaps tomorrow.