Accra
Accra /əˈkrɑː/ is the capital and most populous city of Ghana, with an estimated urban population of 2.27 million as of 2012.[6] It is also the capital of the Greater Accra Region and of the Accra Metropolis District, with which it is conterminous.[7] Accra is furthermore the anchor of a larger metropolitan area, the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA),[8]which is inhabited by about 4 million people and the thirteenth-largest metropolitan area in Africa.
Accra stretches along the Ghanaian Atlantic coast and extends north. Originally built around three different settlements including a port (Jamestown), it served as the capital of the British Gold Coast between 1877 and 1957. Once merely a 19th-century suburb of Victoriaborg, Accra has since transitioned into a modern metropolis; the city's architecture reflects this history, ranging from 19th-century architecture buildings to modern skyscrapers and apartment blocks.[9]
Accra serves as the Greater Accra Region's economic and administrative hub. It is furthermore a centre of a wide range of nightclubs, restaurants, and hotels.[10] Since the early 1990s, a number of new buildings have been built, including the multi-storey French-owned Novotel hotel. The city's National Theatre was built with Chinese assistance. In 2010, the Globalization and World Cities Research Network designated Accra a Gamma-minus-level world city, indicating a growing level of international influence and connectedness.[11]
The central business district of Accra contains the city's main banks and department stores, and an area known as the Ministries, where Ghana's government administration is concentrated. Economic activities in Accra include the financial and commercial sectors, fishing, and the manufacture of processed food, lumber, plywood, textiles, clothing, and chemicals. Tourism is soon becoming a thriving business for arts and crafts, history cites and local travel & tour agents. The oxford street in Osu – Accra has grown to become the hub of business and night life in Accra.
Elective Ghana
Elective Ghana is a medical electives and volunteering organization that facilitates elective placements for medical students and volunteers to Ghana. Elective Ghana arranges hospital placements for premeds students, medical students, Nursing and Midwifery students, Public Health Research Students, Gap Breaks and General Volunteers etc. We have partnerships with most hospitals, orphanages and schools throughout Ghana, allowing us tailor the electives and volunteering programs to students’ interests.
Roster Minor Global Healht Ghana provisional program
On arrival, the two days will be used for orientation, city tour etc.
In Accra the hospitals will be Greater Accra Regional Hospital ( Ridge) and Korle Bu Teaching Hospital:
Three weeks in Accra : 25th September-8th October in the clinical work and also taking part in ward rounds, emergency room , theatre , lab work - all base on the topic they select.
- During this time they can also collect data that will be useful for their write up .
- On weekends they can travel to tourist sites in Ghana.
- The 3rd week will be focus on meeting stakeholders based on their chosen topics in Accra .
The second phase will be two weeks in the district hospital: 9th October-22nd October:
- Here they will take part in clinical work and also visit outreach clinics and rural clinics (CHIPS compounds attached to the hospitals)
- They will then spend two days ( 23rd,24th October ) meeting stakeholders and do their write up.
- They can then return to Accra on 25th to keep their bags at the hostel and use the rest of the time for traveling around. Specially Mole National Park in the Northern Region of Ghana etc.
Social Reports
GHANA - ACCRA - minor global health - Marieke Jansen-2018.pdfGHANA - Social report MGH2019.docx