HTH doctors, nurses, others trained in improved cancer care
About fifty doctors, orderlies, nurses and cleaners at the Ho Teaching Hospital (HTH) have completed a six-month course in Improved Cancer Care.
The training was meant to create awareness among the participants in the assessment and management of pain in cancer patients.
The objective was also to create a multidisciplinary team to discuss each cancer case to optimise the treatment outcome.
A Consultant Paediatric Haematologist-Oncologist at the Department of Paediatrics at the HTH, Dr Koku Hefoume Amegan-Aho, disclosed this to the Daily Graphic last Friday.
He said the hospital recorded a total of 185 cancer cases in 2022, saying that currently, there were about 2,000 such cases they were dealing with. He said the training was a capacity building programme to help reduce anxiety among the staff, so far as the handling of cases and drugs was concerned.
“For the patient, it will help to improve decision-making in the choice of treatment and optimise the pain management.
Dr Amegan-Aho, who is a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Paediatric and Child Health at the University of Health and Allied Sciences, said the pain of the cancer patient had to be graded and given the appropriate treatment, hence the need for awareness in the areas of chemotherapy, medication and laundry.
