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Chiraa Government Hospital, Sunyani (2026)

21/03/2026

NEWBORN with ANENCEPHALY, a severe neural tube defect.

🧠 What is ANENCEPHALY?

👉🏾 It occurs when the neural tube fails to close during early fetal development (around the 23rd–26th day after conception).

👉🏾This leads to absence of major portions of the brain, skull, and scalp.

👉🏾The exposed neural tissue is often covered by a thin membrane, as seenon the top of the head in the image below.

⚠️ CLINICAL FEATURES:

👁️Infants may be born with absent or rudimentary brain tissue.

👁️Associated with abnormal facial features, low-set ears, and scalp/cranial defects.

👁️Sadly, most newborns do not survive beyond a few hours or days after birth.

🔎 RISK FACTORS:

🚩Folate deficiency during pregnancy.

🚩Genetic predisposition.

🚩Environmental factors (maternal diabetes, certain medications, hyperthermia in early pregnancy).

✅ PREVENTION:

🫸🏾 Sticking to Early antenatal schedule

🫸🏾 Folic acid supplementation (400 mcg daily before conception and during early pregnancy) has been proven to significantly reduce the risk of neural tube defects like anencephaly and spina bifida.

🫸🏾 A good nutrition

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19/01/2026

Measles can be fatal.

Do you know its symptoms?
🔴 Rash that starts on the face and spreads over the body
🔴 Fever
🔴 Cough
🔴 Red and watery eyes
🔴 Small white spots inside the cheeks

Seek health care if you suspect you or your child has measles

19/01/2026

❗️PRESS RELEASE❗️

Central Regional Health Directorate Condemns Assault at Akoti Health Centre, Calls for Immediate Police Action.

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19/01/2026

PRESS RELEASE ‼️

13/01/2026

📍THE FOUR MAIN STAGES OF WOUND HEALING📍

🩸 1) Hemostasis (stopping the bleeding) — minutes to hours

👉🏾Blood vessels narrow to reduce bleeding

👉🏾Platelets stick together and form a clot

👉🏾The clot becomes a scab, which protects the wound

✅GOAL
Stop bleeding and seal the wound surface

🔥 2) Inflammation (clean-up phase) — 1 to 3 days

👉🏾Area becomes red, warm, swollen, and tender

👉🏾White blood cells arrive to:

👉🏾Destroy germs

👉🏾Remove dead tissue and debris

👉🏾You might see clear or slightly yellow fluid — that can be normal early on

✅GOAL
Prevent infection and clean the wound

🌱 3) Proliferation (rebuilding tissue) — days to weeks

👉🏾New blood vessels grow (granulation tissue — looks red and bumpy)

👉🏾Collagen forms to rebuild the skin’s framework

👉🏾Edges of the wound pull together (contraction)

👉🏾New skin cells (epithelium) grow over the wound

✅ GOAL
Fill in and cover the wound

🧵 4) Maturation/Remodeling (strengthening) — weeks to months

👉🏾Collagen fibers reorganize and strengthen

📍Scar becomes:

👉🏾Flatter

👉🏾Paler

👉🏾Softer over time

👉🏾Skin never returns to 100% original strength, but gets close (80% – 90%)

✅ GOAL
Makes the repaired tissue stronger and more flexible

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13/01/2026

𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐇 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐀𝐔𝐃𝐈𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐎𝐓𝐈 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐇 𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐒, 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐄𝐒 𝟐𝟒-𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐂𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐍 𝐏𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐂 𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐒

The Minister for Health, Hon. Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, MP, has directed the Technical Advisor to the Ministry, Dr. Korku Awoonor, to constitute a technical working group to undertake a comprehensive audit of all health facilities in the Oti Region.

The audit will focus on assessing the structural integrity, operational capacity, and overall productivity of these facilities, with a view of strengthening service delivery and safeguarding patient safety.

The directive was issued during the Ministry of Health’s two-day management retreat and forms part of Government’s broader agenda to improve oversight of health infrastructure and ensure that public health facilities across the country consistently meet approved safety, quality, and performance standards.

As part of complementary measures to enhance the quality of care and patient experience, the Health Minister has also ordered the introduction of 24-hour cleaning services in all public hospitals nationwide.

This intervention is aimed at improving hygiene standards, strengthening infection prevention and control, and creating safer, more patient-friendly healthcare environments.

Together, these initiatives are part of Ministry’s commitment to raising standards across the health sector through proactive supervision, improved facility management, and sustained investments in quality healthcare delivery.

12/01/2026

🚨 COMPARTMENT SYNDROME🚨

A True Medical Emergency

Compartment syndrome occurs when pressure builds up inside a closed muscle compartment, cutting off blood flow and leading to muscle and nerve damage.

🧑‍🧒 TYPES

🔴 ACUTE cases often follow fractures, crush injuries, or tight casts and require urgent fasciotomy.

🔵 CHRONIC (exertional) type appears during exercise and improves with rest.

⚠️ SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS

👉🏾REMEMBER the 6 P’s:

♨️Pain (out of proportion),
♨️ Pallor,
♨️ Paresthesia,
♨️ Paralysis,
♨️ Pulselessness (late),
♨️Poikilothermia.

🚸MANAGEMENT/TREATMENT

⏱️ Early recognition saves limbs and lives.
Prompt intervention can prevent permanent damage. Details on flyer

📍PROSPECTING
📚 Perfect for nursing students, medicos & emergency care learning.

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29/12/2025

🩺 THE SHARED PLACENTA 🩺

This phenomenon inappens in twins formation especially in identical twins when both share one placenta.

⚠️ RISKS:
There are some risks associated with the phenomenon even though it’s a shared placenta:

1. Uneven nutrient
2. Uneven blood supply → may cause Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS)

🩺 CARE:
It requires frequent monitoring to keep both babies healthy.

✨ MANAGEMENT:
Though it is common in identical twins but manageable with close medical supervision!

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Jovial Nyarko-Ababio

20/12/2025

🧐DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VENOMOUS and NON-VENOMOUS SNAKES🐍

1️⃣ BITE MARKS 🐍
Non-venomous snakes usually leave several small, evenly spaced tooth marks. Venomous snakes often leave two deeper fang punctures, although this can vary depending on the species and the bite angle.

2️⃣ BEHAVIOR 🐍
Venomous snakes are often more defensive when threatened and may hiss, coil, or strike to protect themselves. Non-venomous snakes are more likely to flee or rely on camouflage rather than confrontation.

3️⃣ HEAD SHAPE 🐍
Many venomous snakes have a broader, triangular-shaped head due to venom glands, while many non-venomous snakes have a more rounded or narrow head. This feature is not always reliable, as some non-venomous species can flatten their heads to appear larger.

4️⃣ PUPILS 🐍
In some regions, venomous snakes tend to have vertical, slit-shaped pupils, while non-venomous snakes often have round pupils. Lighting conditions and species differences can affect this trait.

5️⃣ BODY and MOVEMENT 🐍
Venomous snakes may have thicker bodies and slower, more deliberate movements, while non-venomous snakes are often slimmer and faster. This is a general observation and not a strict rule.

🚨Though identification can be difficult and risky but if you encounter a snake or suspect a bite, keep your distance and contact trained professionals for safe handling and guidance.

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Ransford Antwi

18/12/2025

🚨 ABNORMALITIES OF THE NAIL PLATE 🚨

1. Terry’s Nails

→ Nail plate appears diffusely white or pale with a narrow distal pink or brown band
→ Due to decreased vascularity of nail bed
→ Common associations
→ Hypoalbuminemia
→ Liver cirrhosis
→ Congestive heart failure
→ Diabetes mellitus
→ Chronic kidney disease

2. Salmon Patch (Oil Drop Sign)

→ Yellow-pink translucent patch visible beneath nail plate
→ Represents psoriatic involvement of nail bed
→ Highly specific for nail psoriasis
→ Often associated with
→ Pitting
→ Onycholysis
→ Subungual hyperkeratosis

3. Splinter Hemorrhages

→ Thin, longitudinal reddish-brown streaks under nail plate
→ Caused by rupture of nail bed capillaries
→ Seen in
→ Trauma (most common)
→ Infective endocarditis
→ Vasculitis
→ Antiphospholipid syndrome

4. Subungual Pigmentation (Low-Grade Hematoma)

→ Brownish or reddish discoloration beneath nail plate
→ Usually due to minor repeated trauma
→ Pigment does not involve nail matrix
→ Lesion grows out with nail growth
→ Important differential: melanoma

5. Subungual Hematoma

→ Dark red, maroon, or black discoloration
→ Represents acute bleeding under nail plate
→ Usually painful initially
→ Common after blunt trauma
→ Color migrates distally with nail growth

6. Green Nail Syndrome

→ Green-black discoloration of nail plate
→ Caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection
→ Occurs in moist environments
→ Seen in
→ Onycholysis
→ Chronic water exposure
→ Artificial nails

7. Leukonychia

→ White spots or transverse white streaks on nail plate
→ Due to abnormal keratinization of nail matrix
→ Most commonly from minor trauma
→ Lesions move distally with nail growth
→ Not due to calcium deficiency

8. Blue Nail Discoloration

→ Diffuse bluish coloration of nail plate
→ Caused by reduced oxygenation or altered hemoglobin
→ Seen in
→ Cyanosis
→ Methemoglobinemia
→ Drug-induced (e.g., antimalarials, amiodarone)
→ Advanced systemic illness

9. Yellow Nail Syndrome

→ Yellow, thickened, slow-growing nails
→ Loss of cuticle often seen
→ Classic triad
→ Yellow nails
→ Lymphedema
→ Respiratory disease (chronic sinusitis, bronchiectasis, pleural effusion)

10. Longitudinal Melanonychia

→ Single or multiple brown-black vertical bands
→ Pigment originates from nail matrix melanocytes
→ Common causes
→ Benign melanocytic activation
→ Junctional nevus
→ Physiological (especially in darker skin types)
→ Requires differentiation from melanoma

11. Subungual Malignant Melanoma (Early)

→ Irregular pigmented band with
→ Uneven borders
→ Color variation
→ Widening proximally
→ Hutchinson sign may be present
→ High suspicion if single digit involved
→ Does not move with nail growth

12. Subungual Malignant Melanoma (Advanced)

→ Large irregular pigmented mass
→ Nail plate destruction or lifting
→ Possible ulceration or bleeding
→ Represents late presentation
→ Poor prognosis if diagnosis delayed

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01/12/2025

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01/12/2025

🚨CAGD UPDATE🚨

SALARY PAYMENT SCHEDULE FOR 2026
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CAGD UPDATE

DECEMBER 2025

VALIDATION => 11th - 14th December 2025

CAGD => 18th December 2025

ALERTS => 19th - 21st December 2025
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JANUARY 2026

VALIDATION => 16th - 19th January 2026

CAGD => 23rd January 2026

ALERTS => 24th - 26th January 2026

NB: 9% increment on your SSMS will begin here. CAGD is expected to release a PDF for the 2026 9% increment for all workers but is not yet available.

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