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The Nation’s Heart: Ghana

Global Cardiac Surgery

Documented reports in Ghana go back to 1964 with the use of surface cooling to close atrial septal defects (ASDs) and performing a closed mitral commissurotomy at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, under Charles Easmon, general surgeon and head of the Surgery Department at the hospital.