| Since May 2007, Eric Nana Sefa Boateng (Executive Director) has coordinated elective placements for over 700 medical students and doctors who expressed interest in having medical internship programmes in Ghana. Many volunteers have also been assisted with getting suitable placements in Ghana to offer their services. It all started four years ago at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Ghana's premier teaching hospital, where he has 8 years of working experience as an ICT support person.
Here, he met two medical students from the United Kingdom at lunch time. In the course of interaction, he got to know from them that, they were not getting the hands-on elective experience they had anticipated before coming for their elective placements in Ghana. Their reason was that, there were usually too many students and doctors during ward rounds which made it very difficult for them to feel part of the ward rounds or appreciate what goes on. In their last week in Ghana, Eric Nana Sefa Boateng arranged for them to go to Donkorkrom Presbyterian Hospital, a rural hospital in the Eastern Region of Ghana, just to offer them the opportunity to experience what happens in the rural hospitals in Ghana.
They really liked Donkorkrom! Through their recommendations and subsequent word-of-mouth adverts by other students, Eric Nana Sefa Boateng (Elective Ghana) have become well known to medical students and Doctors around the world as a coordinator for more fulfilling medical electives in Africa. We have since then helped many medical students from the UK, USA, Europe, Asia, Far East and Africa to get affordable and convenient placements in Ghana.
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