100 Benefit from special hernia surgery in Volta Region

One hundred hernia patients in the Volta Region are benefiting from a three-week special surgical exercise being carried out at the Volta Regional Hospital in Ho.

Dubbed, “Operation Hernia”, the exercise is being carried out by a team led by 28 surgeons from the United Kingdom and the United States of America (USA).

The surgeons, who are using their vacation period to undertake the exercise, will also treat hernia patients in Keta, Bole in the Northern Region, Dixcove in the Western Region and those at the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GHAPOHA) Clinic in Takoradi.

The leader of the team, Dr Chris Oppong, told the Daily Graphic that 5,000 hernia surgeries had been performed in Ghana alone and many more in other African countries since the team started the exercise in 2005.

He said the team used a modern method known as mesh, which prevented the hernia from re-occurring.

He appealed to people who had hernia to seek early medical care and debunked the notion that hernia affected one’s masculinity or fertility.

According to Dr Geoffrey Nyamuame, a consultant surgeon at the Volta Regional Hospital, the selected patients had been invited from the back-log of cases pending at the hospital.