A health education session is being conducted at a maternal and child health clinic in the Central Region. A community health nurse is counselling mothers of infants aged 0–6 months on infant feeding.…
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During an outreach immunisation session at a CHPS compound in the Upper East Region, a community health officer is preparing to vaccinate a healthy 10-week-old infant named Kofi. Kofi received his bir…
A community health nurse at an outpatient therapeutic programme (OTP) site in the Savannah Region reassesses Yaw, a 3-year-old boy who was enrolled two weeks ago with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) w…
A health worker at a CHPS compound in the Upper West Region is conducting a child welfare clinic. Kofi, a 15-month-old boy, is brought by his mother. His weight today is 7.2 kg and his length is 74 cm…
At a well-child clinic in a peri-urban health centre in the Greater Accra Region, a mother brings her six-week-old son, Kwame, for his first immunisation visit. The child was born at term, weighed 3.2…
A 46-year-old man who processes goat hides for drum-making in Accra was admitted 4 days ago with fever, cough and chest discomfort. He is now breathless and hypotensive. His chest X-ray is shown. Bloo…
During a skin NTD outreach in a remote rural community, a nurse sees an 8-year-old boy with the painless thickened, cracked lesions on the sole shown; he walks on the sides of his feet. Several childr…
A district health directorate in the Western Region is planning a campaign after finding many adults with legs like those shown. The district is also endemic for onchocerciasis.
A district health team in the Savannah Region is planning its annual mass drug administration campaign. The target area is co-endemic for onchocerciasis and soil-transmitted helminths (STH) but has no…
A 25-year-old farmer from the Volta Region has had a painless ulcer on his forearm, as shown, for 3 months. It began as a small papule and slowly enlarged, with a raised, firm edge. Antibiotics have n…
Kofi, a 9-year-old boy, is seen in the outpatient surgical clinic at a regional hospital in the Brong-Ahafo Region. His mother reports three days of right eyelid swelling following a one-week history …
A 9-year-old girl, Akua, presents to the regional hospital in the Ashanti Region with a 3-day history of fever, periorbital swelling, and redness confined to the left upper and lower eyelids. Her moth…
A 35-year-old man named Kwabena presents to the regional hospital in Tamale with a 10-day history of left-sided facial pain, nasal congestion, and purulent nasal discharge following an untreated denta…
A 28-year-old woman, Ama, is referred from a regional hospital in the Ashanti Region to the Komfo Anokye neurosurgical unit with a 10-day history of frontal sinusitis treated with oral amoxicillin as …
A 12-year-old boy, Kwame, is brought to the paediatric surgical ward at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital by his mother after five days of worsening right-sided facial pain, nasal congestion, and fever. …
A 7-year-old girl named Yaa is seen in the Korle Bu paediatric surgical unit with a 4-day history of right periorbital swelling and redness following an upper respiratory tract infection. Her mother r…
A 38-year-old man, Kwame, is admitted to the Komfo Anokye ED following 5 days of worsening pneumonia. He is intubated for respiratory failure and placed on mechanical ventilation. His height is 175 cm…
Akosua, a 34-year-old woman, presents to Korle Bu emergency centre with rigors, right loin pain, and vomiting for 18 hours. Vitals: temp 39.4°C, HR 124 bpm, BP 96/60 mmHg, RR 22/min, SpO2 97% on air. …
A 67-year-old man is in the resus bay at Komfo Anokye ED with septic shock secondary to a perforated sigmoid colon. He has received 2.5 litres of Hartmann's solution over 90 minutes. Current vitals: B…
A 72-year-old man, Joseph, is in the Korle Bu resus bay with septic shock from a presumed urinary source. He has received 30 mL/kg IV crystalloid and noradrenaline is running at 0.25 mcg/kg/min. His M…
A 58-year-old man, Kofi, is admitted to the ED-ICU at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital following emergency laparotomy for perforated peptic ulcer. He is mechanically ventilated, haemodynamically stable …
Adwoa, a 67-year-old woman with known hypertension, is in the resus bay at Korle Bu emergency centre with septic shock from a suspected biliary source. She has received 2 litres of IV Hartmann's solut…
Mohammed, a 44-year-old farmer, is admitted to a regional hospital ED in Northern Ghana with bilateral pneumonia, respiratory failure, and new ARDS (PaO2/FiO2 ratio 118). He has been intubated and pla…
A 44-year-old woman, Abena, has been in the ED-ICU at Korle Bu Emergency Centre for 5 days following severe community-acquired pneumonia requiring mechanical ventilation. She is on fentanyl 50 mcg/hr …
Kofi, a 34-year-old man, presents to a regional hospital A&E with fever, productive cough, and hypotension for 6 hours. Vitals: temp 39.2°C, HR 122 bpm, BP 82/50 mmHg, RR 28/min, SpO₂ 91% on air. CXR …
A 38-year-old woman, Akosua, is intubated in the Korle Bu emergency centre for severe community-acquired pneumonia that has evolved into ARDS. She is on volume-controlled ventilation with FiO2 1.0, PE…
A 58-year-old woman, Akosua, is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED by relatives with a 2-day history of fever, rigors, and confusion. She has a urinary catheter in situ. Vitals: temp 38.9°C, HR 118 bpm, B…
A 58-year-old man, Kofi, is in the Komfo Anokye ED with septic shock from a perforated sigmoid colon. He has been on noradrenaline for 18 hours and the infusion rate has been titrated up to 0.30 mcg/k…
A 52-year-old man, Kwame, is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED by family after three days of fever, rigors, and confusion. He has no known comorbidities. On arrival: BP 74/40 mmHg, HR 118 bpm, RR 26/min,…
Ama, a 34-year-old primigravida at 36 weeks gestation, is admitted to the regional hospital ED in Tamale with severe pre-eclampsia that has evolved to eclampsia with three tonic-clonic seizures. She i…