Kofi, a 45-year-old farmer, is brought to Komfo Anokye ED with a heavily contaminated wound to his right thigh following a machete injury sustained while clearing farmland 2 hours ago. The wound is 8 …
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Akua, a 28-year-old market trader, presents to the district hospital A&E in Brong-Ahafo with a 4 cm laceration to her right index finger sustained from a broken bottle 45 minutes ago. The wound is cle…
Yaa, a 32-year-old seamstress, presents to a regional hospital A&E with a 3 cm laceration to her right forearm sustained from a sewing machine blade 30 minutes ago. The wound is clean, superficial, an…
A 22-year-old man, Yaw, presents to the surgical outpatient clinic of a district hospital in the Northern Region with a 5-day history of progressive bilateral jaw and neck swelling, odynophagia, and i…
A 34-year-old man, Kwame, is brought by relatives to the emergency department of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital with a 4-day history of severe odontogenic pain in the left lower jaw, progressive neck …
A 28-year-old woman, Akua, is referred from a district hospital in the Volta Region to the regional hospital with a two-day history of rapidly worsening neck swelling, odynophagia, and drooling. She h…
A 50-year-old man, Mensah, is on the surgical ward at a regional hospital in the Volta Region on day 3 of treatment for Ludwig angina. He was managed with airway protection (nasopharyngeal airway — fi…
A 28-year-old woman, Akua, is referred from a district hospital in the Ashanti Region to the regional hospital surgical unit with a two-day history of worsening bilateral neck swelling, fever, and dro…
A 19-year-old student, Akosua, is seen in the emergency department of a regional hospital in the Eastern Region with a 3-day history of left lower jaw pain and swelling after a dental abscess. Over th…
A 28-year-old woman, Ama, is referred from a district hospital in Brong-Ahafo to the regional hospital with a 5-day history of left lower molar pain followed by progressive bilateral submandibular swe…
A 34-year-old man, Kwame, presents to the Komfo Anokye emergency department brought by relatives after three days of progressive floor-of-mouth swelling, trismus, and difficulty swallowing. He had a l…
A 34-year-old man, Kwame, is brought to the emergency department of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital by relatives after three days of progressive jaw swelling, fever, and difficulty swallowing. He had a…
A 38-year-old man, Kofi, is admitted to the Tamale Teaching Hospital surgical ward with Ludwig's angina secondary to a periapical abscess of the lower right third molar. He is febrile (39.0°C), HR 112…
A fuel tanker overturns on the Accra–Kumasi highway near Nkawkaw, injuring 34 people. The regional hospital ED in the Eastern Region activates its mass casualty response. A 28-year-old man is found ly…
A gas explosion at a chemical processing plant near Tema injures 28 workers, several of whom arrive at the Tema General Hospital A&E with burning eyes, excessive lacrimation, and skin erythema. Three …
A gas cylinder explosion at a market in Tamale injures 22 people. The Tamale Teaching Hospital ED receives 11 casualties within 20 minutes. During field triage, a 7-year-old girl named Aisha is found …
A stampede at a football stadium in Kumasi results in 67 casualties being brought to Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) A&E. The hospital major incident plan is activated. A 34-year-old man, Kwaben…
A suspected chlorine gas leak at an industrial facility near Tema Port results in 28 workers presenting to the regional hospital A&E with eye irritation, coughing, and skin burning of varying severity…
A fuel tanker overturns on the N1 highway near Accra, triggering a multi-vehicle collision involving a commercial bus. Forty-three casualties are reported at the scene. The A&E registrar at Korle Bu T…
A fuel tanker overturns on the N1 highway near Kumasi, triggering a mass-casualty incident involving 23 victims. The regional hospital A&E activates its disaster plan and deploys a triage team to the …
A 6-year-old boy named Kofi is found unresponsive at the scene of a school bus crash in the Ashanti Region. He is apnoeic. A triage officer opens his airway with a head-tilt chin-lift; he still does n…
A fuel tanker overturns on the Accra-Kumasi highway, triggering a multi-vehicle collision involving two intercity buses. Forty-three casualties are reported at the scene. The first ambulance crew on s…
A 34-year-old man, Kwabena, is found at the scene of a building collapse at a construction site in Kumasi. The first responder applies START triage. Kwabena is not walking, has a respiratory rate of 2…
A 28-year-old man, Kwame, is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED after a high-speed road traffic collision. He is unconscious (GCS 7), with massive midface swelling, blood pooling in the oropharynx, and gu…
Ama, a 9-year-old girl, is brought to the A&E of a regional hospital by her mother after falling from a mango tree and knocking out an upper front tooth. The avulsed tooth is a permanent upper central…
A 52-year-old man, Kofi, presents to Korle Bu A&E with persistent bleeding from the left lower molar socket following a tooth extraction performed 6 hours ago. He is on warfarin for atrial fibrillatio…
A 19-year-old student, Esi, presents to the A&E at a regional hospital in Tamale after being struck in the face during a football match 25 minutes ago. Her upper left central incisor was completely av…
Yaw, a 55-year-old hypertensive man, is brought to the casualty department at Cape Coast Teaching Hospital with a sudden-onset crushing central chest pain radiating to the left arm, associated with di…
Mr Quaye, a 30-year-old man, has had sharp central chest pain for 2 days that is worse lying flat and eased by sitting forward, following a sore throat. A pericardial rub is heard. Troponin is normal,…
Akua, a 55-year-old market trader with known type 2 diabetes, is admitted to Korle Bu Teaching Hospital with a 2-day history of high fever, rigors and right-sided loin pain. On examination, she is con…