Health Officials in Kumasi Demonstrate Emergency Preparedness
April 05, 2017
The Department of Nursing at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and the Emergency Medicine Unit of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) have organised a simulation exercise at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, to test the emergency preparedness of health officials to handle emergency situations....
KATH: Mass Accident Emergency Stimulation Training Held
March 15, 2017
Komfo Anokye Teaching HospitalHolds First Mass Casualty Incident Moulage Simulation for KNUST ER Nurses
Massive Road Traffic Accident Simulated with ‘Patients’ Made Up to Look Injured, Dead
KATH— March 15, 2017 — Today atKomfo Anokye Teaching Hospital , a Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) Moulage Simulation was held to train KNUST ER (4th year) nurses how to triage patients and allocate limited healthcare resources during a large manmade or natural disaster. Approximately 45 KNUST 4th year nurses, 12 emergency physicians, 3 emergency medical technicians/paramedics, and 42 KNUST 3rd year nurses participated in the simulation where 50 people played the role of ‘patients’ who were made up to look like they were injured, crying, upset, or dead...
Local Nonprofit, World Missions Possible, Invites Houstonians to Help “BOOT OUT EBOLA” in Sierra Leone
August 31, 2014
Houston-based nonprofit World Missions Possible is no stranger to West Africa – leading eight volunteer teams of Houston-based doctors and nurses to bring medical care to over 4,200 patients in remote and rural West African villages. But now one of its partners, Wellbodi Alliance in Sierra Leone, is fighting a rare, but fatal, enemy: The Ebola virus.
Non-Profit Leads Volunteer Mission in Sierra Leone
September 23, 2014
As co-founder of World Missions Possible, Roxane Richter often invokes a quote by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane." That statement sums up what the non-profit organization has been doing since 2001.
Alumna Puts Degree to Work Helping Others
August 18, 2010
University of Houston-Clear Lake alumna Roxane Richter knows what it's like to do small things with great love. The saying, adopted from Mother Teresa, is the motto of the medical nonprofit World Missions Possible where Richter is currently president.