{"id":13026,"date":"2025-09-04T10:46:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=13026"},"modified":"2025-09-04T10:46:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:46:59","slug":"ghana-urgently-needs-organ-harvesting-law-korle-bu-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=13026","title":{"rendered":"Ghana urgently needs organ harvesting law \u2013 Korle Bu CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"161\" data-end=\"417\">Chief Executive of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr. Yakubu Seidu Adam, has called on Parliament to expedite the passage of legislation on organ harvesting, arguing that such a move would significantly cut the cost of transplants for patients in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"419\" data-end=\"741\">Addressing members of Parliament\u2019s Health Committee during their visit to the hospital on Wednesday, September 3, 2025, Dr. Seidu Adam said the absence of a legal framework compels patients in need of organ transplants to seek treatment abroad, even though Ghana has qualified specialists capable of performing the procedures.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"743\" data-end=\"955\">\u201cWith our own population, if they need a kidney transplant, they have to travel to India, America, or the UK. We have the expertise here to do the work, if only the legislative approval is given,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"957\" data-end=\"1063\">Dr. Adam added that the lack of legislation also hampers eye surgeries, particularly cornea transplants.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_ad jeg_ad_article jnews_content_inline_2_ads  \">\n<div class=\"ads-wrapper align-center \">\n<div class=\"ads_shortcode\">\n<div class=\"a-single a-10\">\u201cAs eye surgeons, we perform cornea transplants, but we cannot get corneas locally. We have to import them from America, where the lowest price is between $3,000 and $4,000. If we had the legislation, we could harvest corneas here, and a patient would not spend more than GH\u20b5500,\u201d he noted.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-start=\"1359\" data-end=\"1591\">His appeal adds to mounting pressure on lawmakers to create a regulatory framework for organ donation and harvesting in Ghana, a move health experts say would improve access to life-saving procedures and reduce costs for patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Executive of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr. Yakubu Seidu Adam, has called on Parliament to expedite the passage of legislation on organ harvesting, arguing that such a move would significantly cut the cost of transplants for patients in Ghana. Addressing members of Parliament\u2019s Health Committee during their visit to the hospital on Wednesday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":13027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,13],"tags":[4015],"class_list":["post-13026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-health","tag-korle-bu-ceo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13028,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13026\/revisions\/13028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}