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I had a conversation with a specialist colleague from Ghana who is currently spending a year in a North American hospital.
We were discussing stroke care in Ghana, and this is what he told me:
“People who suffer stroke in Ghana often do not get proper treatment.
Fa ma Nyame. (Leave it to God)
I see the way they care for patients here, and I get shy. I do not even talk about my experiences in Ghana.”
Another colleague, during his specialist training in Maryland, once told me:
“Banda, this environment makes practicing medicine worthwhile.”
He was not talking about salary.
He was talking about patient outcomes.
He meant that when an emergency comes in, he can ask for what the textbooks say the patient needs, and he gets it.
The imaging.
The tests.
The devices.
The intervention.
The irony is that many of our leaders travel abroad for care, to places like Cleveland Clinic and Johns Hopkins.
They know what proper emergency care looks like.
They know what happens when someone with chest pain is assessed quickly, or when a stroke patient gets urgent brain imaging and treatment without delay.
So the issue is not that they do not know.
The issue is that they accept less for everyone else.
For stroke, time matters.
Some treatments work best within about 4.5 hours, and certain procedures can still help some patients up to 24 hours after symptoms begin.
In simple terms, the faster you get proper care, the better your chances.
The same is true for heart attacks.
Minutes matter.
Quick assessment, an ECG, and rapid treatment can be the difference between life and death.
So yes, your chances of surviving a stroke or a major heart attack can depend heavily on how quickly you get care and whether the system can provide the basics on time.
Now imagine you stay in Kasoa and your suffer an emergency.
Can you reliably get an ambulance to the nearest facility?
Can the hospital get you an MRI within 4 hours?
Will the theater have all what it takes to deliver care?
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This is why misplaced priorities kill.
And this is why as citizens we must stop treating health system failure as a party issue.
Emergencies do not ask who you voted for.
A heart attack does not care about party colors.
No one is protected in a dysfunctional emergency system.
Until we demand steady, practical improvement in emergency care, imaging, staffing, referral systems, and critical care, any of us could become the next victim.
Our leaders know what good care looks like.
They have seen it.
Some have used it.
The tragedy is that they keep accepting a different standard for the people they lead.
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