Healthcare delivery in Ghana has improved over the years but barely qualifies to be called a quality one as according to the World Factbook, 7.53 per 1000 people die daily from illnesses and poor healthcare delivery in Ghana.

The latter inspired the birth of the annual Healthcare Quality GhanaWeb Forum to bring together healthcare and non-healthcare professionals to talk about quality improvement in healthcare delivery, patient safety and patient satisfaction in Ghana.

Dr. Joseph Boateng, a Physician Specialist and a health care blogger on Ghanaweb mentored the development of the forum to reach its fruition as the first of its kind in the country.

He would be speaking at the forum with Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, Cardio-Thoracic Surgeon, Prof. Agyeman Badu Akosa, Pathologist and social commentator, Dr. Eli Atikpui, Registrar, Medical and Dental Council and Dr. Lydia Dzane-Selby, Director of Claims, NHIS/NHIA.

Others are Dr. Daniel Asare, CEO, Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Dr. Francis Agyemang-Yeboah, Rev. Veronica Darko, Registrar, Nurses and Midwives Council, Mr. Joseph Kodjo Nsiah Nyoagbe, Registrar, Pharmacy Council, Mr. Samuel Paulos, Founder and Director Gateway 4 Youth and Dr. Edoardo Peterlini, Team Leader, TRAQUE.

Dr. Boateng has 34 years of medical practice and is specialized in Internal Medicine and currently lectures at the Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of Cape Coast, School of Medical Sciences. In addition to practicing as a Physician Specialist in the US for sixteen years, his expertise has been in medical management.

Between 1997 and 2005 he was simultaneously the Medical Director of two hospitals in the US. Between 2006 and 2008 he was the Medical Director for an Intensive Care Unit in a third hospital.

He was also a Medical Director for a Physicians’ group from 2001 to 2003. In 2003 he founded and managed a multi-location private medical practice.

In the US he has been the Chairman and member of several committees and a member of a multi-state Medical Directors’ advisory board that have dealt with medical quality, efficiency and medical outcomes.

He obtained his basic medical training at the University of Ghana Medical School. He holds an MPH from the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

He specialized in Internal Medicine at the Good Samaritan Hospital affiliated to the Johns Hopkins University and has a Certificate in the Business of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins University. He is a Fellow of the Ghana College of Physicians.

The forum would be at the Conference Auditorium of the Ghana College of Physicians & Surgeons in Accra on November 27 and 28.

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