Pathology capacity building in Ghana

Towards an improved pathology service in Ghana.

INTRODUCTION Pathology service in Ghana is still in its infancy due to inadequate personnel (Pathologists) and a poor perception of the role of the pathologist in health care delivery. The state of affairs in Ghana may be partly blamed on an accident of history, the anomaly resulting from which has been allowed to become the norm. In the days of the colonial administration of the Gold Coast, as...

Capacity Building to Improve Hospital Managers’ Performance in West Asia

Capacity building in Nepal*

There’s an old saying: “Give a man a fish, feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.” But do we believe this? Many health care providers sacrifice their time and money to provide medical aid to underserved populations in remote environments. But is this helpful? Underserved populations need more than just another doctor. Short-term medical aid, with the exception of disa...

Building capacity in assistive technologies

The Northern Territory Department of Education (DoE) provided assistive technology to support the teaching and learning of students with disability, and teacher training in integrating this technology in the classroom. A professional learning consultant was recruited in October 2012 with responsibility for researching and sourcing appropriate resources based on an evaluation of the needs of stu...

Productivity and Capacity Building

“Productivity and Capacity Building”, may not be far from the nascent realization of the primacy and centrality of humans in economic development and growth process of a nation an aspect of the problem that falls into the mandates of my organisation – the National Manpower Board (NMB). This, no doubt, agrees with the enfolding major developmental paradigm shift to a new programme with profound ...