Our work
Medical care
Ghana has one doctor for every seventeen thousand people. Most of them are in the cities.
With a population of almost twenty-five million, roughly seventy to seventy-five per cent live rurally as subsistence farmers or fishermen. Someone born in such a village may live their entire life without access to medical care.
The healthcare system has five levels: health posts, health centres and clinics, district hospitals, regional hospitals and tertiary hospitals. Urban centres are well served and hold the majority of the country's hospitals, clinics and pharmacies. Rural areas often have no modern healthcare at all — patients rely on traditional medicine, or travel great distances if they can afford to.
Ghana has made real progress, but still faces malaria, HIV/AIDS, maternal and infant mortality, and a crippling shortage of health professionals — all of which widen the gap between urban and rural, rich and poor.
What we treat
Malaria and malaria-treated mosquito nets. Malnutrition. Pre-natal care. Musculoskeletal pain and ergonomic injury. Respiratory infection. And the illnesses that come from drinking contaminated water — which is why the wells and the clinics are the same programme.
- 1:17,000
- doctors to peopleacross Ghana
- $2,500
- one intensive outreachinto a single rural community
- $3.00
- medication per personcurrent running cost
- $6.00
- a treated mosquito netcurrent running cost
Free medical outreach
Ghana has one doctor for every 17,000 people. An intensive outreach into one rural community costs $2,500.
$350
raised of $50,000 · 2 gifts
1% funded
0 outreaches funded funded so far.
Recent gifts
- Anonymous$150
- Comfort Asante$200
From the field
The team with the plaque for the borehole drilled The community at the meeting ground for the medical outreach