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Zawya
13-07-2025
- Health
- Zawya
President Mahama inaugurates committee for University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) transfer to University of Ghana
President John Dramani Mahama has inaugurated a committee tasked with overseeing the transfer of the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) from the Ministry of Health to the University of Ghana. The inauguration fulfils a key commitment by President Mahama to strengthen the links between the nation's leading teaching hospital and its premier university. Named the Transitional Management Committee, the body is co-chaired by two distinguished Ghanaians: Professor Aaron Lawson, a seasoned academic and former Provost of the College of Health Sciences at the University of Ghana, and Professor Mutawakilu Iddrissu, a Neurosurgeon at the Department of Surgery, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. The committee has been given a comprehensive mandate to guide the transition process. Its key responsibilities include: 1. Conducting a comprehensive review of the legal mandates, operational structures, and academic frameworks of both UGMC and the University of Ghana Medical School. 2. Developing integration guidelines to ensure coherence between UGMC's clinical mandates and the university's teaching and research mandates. 3. Designing a practical roadmap with clear timelines and a communication plan for stakeholders. 4. Facilitating all necessary legal and administrative processes for the seamless transfer and integration. 5. Identifying potential challenges, particularly in funding, staffing, and resource allocation, and proposing sustainable solutions. 6. Establishing a transition secretariat to provide operational and logistical support. 7. Reviewing expressions of interest for partnership by international health care institutions. 8. Submitting a comprehensive report to the President of the Republic within three months from the date of inauguration. President Mahama emphasised the significance of the committee's work, urging the members to 'work diligently with a sense of historic responsibility,' adding, 'You're laying the foundation for a legacy of health care and medical education excellence. You're building a bridge between the past and the future.' The President described the UGMC as currently 'a beacon of excellence, a world-class medical institution with a national mandate.' He noted that the Centre 'hosts the largest digitised medical simulation and training centre in West Africa,' which has 'the potential to provide cutting-edge training for healthcare professionals across the West African sub-region.' Built during President Mahama's first term in office at a cost of $271 million and commissioned before he handed over power, the University of Ghana Medical Centre is a quaternary health facility. It provides specialised care in numerous areas, including urology, ophthalmology, ear, nose and throat, cardiology, dermatology, neurology, and interventional radiology for cancers. The facility also boasts amenities such as a medical hotel for clients, assisted reproductive technology services for fertility solutions, and a helipad for airlifting emergency cases. Distributed by APO Group on behalf of The Presidency, Republic of Ghana.
National Post
06-06-2025
- Health
- National Post
Mia Hughes: Canadian Medical Association wants to force Alberta to ignore science on gender care
Article content The entire field is built upon research out of the Netherlands that has been shown to be methodologically flawed, and the diagnosis of gender dysphoria is shaped by political lobbying intended to reduce stigma and distress. Article content What's more, the Canadian Pediatric Society bases its recommendations on the field's standards of care which are set by the discredited World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). In a recently withdrawn legal challenge to Alabama's youth gender medicine ban, WPATH was forced to disclose over two million internal emails that revealed the organization blocked independent systematic reviews that showed low-quality evidence, consulted 'social justice lawyers' when drafting its medical guidelines, and, at the Biden administration's request, removed almost all lower age limits from its adolescent chapter to avoid undermining state-level legal battles. Article content Reimer also stated, without irony, that medical decisions should be based on 'the best science.' Yet the best science — specifically the systematic reviews from Sweden, Finland, England, and a team of researchers in Canada — has all concluded the evidence base for paediatric medical transition is of very low certainty. Alberta's Bill 26 reflects that consensus. The CMA's position contradicts it. Article content This isn't the first legal challenge to Alberta's legislation. Late last year, Egale Canada — originally a gay rights charity that expanded into trans advocacy in the early 2000s — teamed up with the Skipping Stone Foundation and five families to contest the law. That move is surprising given early research conducted by leading figures in gender medicine, Psychologist/Sexologist Kenneth Zucker and Psychiatrist Susan Bradley, found that most children with early-onset gender dysphoria would grow up to be gay or lesbian if left untreated, and same-sex attracted teens are overrepresented in the adolescent patients who began flooding gender clinics in the 2010s and among detransitioners. That a gay rights group would back medical interventions that have the potential to sterilize homosexual adolescents is a tragic reversal of purpose. Article content In an interview, Dr. Jake Donaldson, one of three Alberta doctors who filed the challenge alongside the CMA, inadvertently highlighted the questionable rationale for these extreme medical interventions. He believes that puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones help gender-distressed youth blend in better as members of the opposite sex, which makes them 'safer and happier.' But even if that were true — and there is no high-quality evidence to suggest that it is — this approach only offers a superficial, short-term fix that ignores the deeper psychological struggles of these youth. And it can come at such immense long-term cost in the form of sterility, sexual dysfunction, and lifelong medical dependence. Article content 'Medicine is a calling,' explained the CMA president in her statement. 'Doctors pursue it because they are compelled to care for and promote the well-being of patients.' Article content Yet noble intentions are no safeguard against harm. History is littered with medical scandals. At the centre of each one, there were well-intentioned doctors who left a trail of devastation in their quest to help patients. The doctors who prescribed thalidomide didn't do so with the intention of causing major birth defects; the obstetricians who sent expectant mothers for prenatal X-rays didn't deliberately set out to cause childhood leukemia, and Walter Freeman famously believed his prefrontal lobotomies were a humane alternative to the deplorable conditions in insane asylums. Article content At this point, there is little doubt that paediatric gender medicine is destined to take its place in history alongside these medical catastrophes. Therefore, Alberta is not acting unreasonably; it is acting responsibly. By restricting unproven and irreversible treatments for minors, the province has commendably joined a global wave of governments re-asserting evidence and ethical principles in the face of medical groupthink. It is the CMA — not the Alberta government — that must reckon with its conscience. Article content Mia Hughes specializes in researching pediatric gender medicine, psychiatric epidemics, social contagion and the intersection of trans rights and women's rights. She is the author of ' The WPATH Files,' a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, and director of Genspect Canada. Article content
Daily Mail
27-05-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE I transitioned from male to female when I was 12... here's why I SUPPORT Trump's ban on childhood sex changes
The prominent de-transitioner Chloe Cole has joined a lawsuit to support a Trump administration order halting medical sex changes on children, which has been challenged in the courts. Cole, 20, began to transition at age 12 with drugs and then breast-removal surgery, which she later regretted and has tried to reverse. She says President Donald Trump 's directive should stand, as it would stop other minors suffering like her.
