Medical Articles & News
A two-member team from FOCOS Orthopaedic Hospital led by Founder, CEO and Surgeon-In-Chief of FOCOS Orthopaedic Hospital, Prof Oheneba Boachie-Adjei has ended their four-day medical mission to Makeni in Sierra Leone. This was a follow up to an earlier agreement between: FOCOS Orthopedic Hospital in Accra-Ghana, the Holy Spirit Hospital (HSH) in Makeni-Sierra Leon and […]
Dr. Joseph Ogyaadu an Orthopedic Surgeon at FOCOS Orthopedic Hospital empowered specialists at the Bi-Annual Conference and Workshop of the Arthroplasty Society of Nigeria (ASN) held at the Barca Liga Hotel in Gudu, Abuja, Nigeria, from Tuesday, 25th to Thursday, 27th of September, 2018. The conference themed, “Prosthetic Joint Infection” witnessed Dr. Joseph Ogyaadu share […]
The Foundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine (FOCOS) has announced Saturday, October 20, 2018, as the official day to stage the first-ever, FOCOS “Culinary Cup” fundraiser at the FOCOS Orthopedic Hospital. Themed “cook to heal”, the Culinary Cup is an inter-organizational cooking competition that aims to raise funds to support children who require complex orthopedic […]
The Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York, has donated an Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IONM) equipment as well as a pair of isolation transformers for the Evoked Potential (EP) devices worth over $ 30,000.00 to the FOCOS Orthopedic Hospital. A common complication of Spinal Surgery is post-operative neurologic deficit which includes, weakness or paralysis […]
Management and staff of FOCOS Orthopaedic Hospital last week, announced an amount of GHC 60,000, as funds raised through our internal fundraising campaign themed, the “charity begins at home campaign”, at ourFacility in Pantang. Launched in May, 2018, by the Development team at FOCOS, the campaign was geared towards supporting the mother Foundation, Foundation of […]
Exactly a week ago, Bahia Akerele an award-wining interior decorator and former patient of Prof. Oheneba Boachie-Adjei visited the hospital as part of activities to mark her tenth anniversary after her successful surgery which was supervised by the FOCOS CEO at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York. Commenting about her connection with […]
Our Founder and CEO, Prof. Oheneba Boachie-Adjei is currently leading a team of surgeons at the K2M workshop in Cartagena, Colombia. In 2012, he did the first two cases with the K2M MESA, a revolutionary deformity spinal system used to address complex correction maneuvers for spinal pathologies cases (a device he helped K2M develop) in […]
Nicole Agaronnik, a student of the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University and former scoliosis patient has donated braces to FOCOS Orthopedic Hospital on Tuesday, August 14, 2018, as a way of giving back to underprivileged children who suffer from complex spine deformities. As a leader of Curvy Girls, an international scoliosis group that […]
Mavis Kwateng has joined FOCOS Orthopedic Hospital as the Director of Nursing to oversee the activities of the nursing unit and comprehensive patient care. Miss Kwateng is a public health professional with significant experience in healthcare delivery with a focus on prevention, treatment and addressing social determinants of health within Sub-Saharan Africa, and United States […]
The Foundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine (FOCOS) has appointed Dr. Reuben Mawuli Coffie, as Chief Development Officer (CDO) to spearhead the foundation’s development strategy. This forms part of the foundations goal to improve its fundraising efforts which will it turn help it give more support to the underserved in society. With over two decades […]