Open AccessPerson-centred innovations for family medicine and COVID-19 in Ghana: A short report
Author(s) -
Daniel O Darko
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
african journal of primary health care and family medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.654
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 2071-2936
pISSN - 2071-2928
DOI - 10.4102/phcfm.v13i1.3016
Subject(s) - pandemic , medicine , covid-19 , ehealth , family medicine , telemedicine , health care , primary care , developing country , primary health care , economic growth , population , disease , environmental health , infectious disease (medical specialty) , virology , pathology , outbreak , economics
Countries around the world have mobilised health, social, and economic resources to control the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic since its discovery in December 2019. Primary care as a frontline of many health systems, played a huge role in the management of the current pandemic. This is a short report by Dr Daniel Osafo Darko, a family medicine resident at the Nyaho Medical Centre in Accra, Ghana. It details some contributions of Nyaho Medical Centre to the fight against COVID-19 in Ghana by providing clinical care, using eHealth approaches.