FHN Medical Mission at Huttel Health Care Centre Ghana

Prenatal care, maternity services, vaccinations, family medicine, 24 hour emergency services and ambulance transportation were provided. All services were provided at affordable cost to all residents regardless of income.

Housing facilities were provided for two medics, a lab technician and ambulance driver. One evening meal was furnished. There was no running water or electricity at the time, however
those utilities have now been installed.

The health care center provided an excellent standard of care and worked closely with other medical facilities such as Agogo Presbt. Hospital.

The first few cases of Buruli ulcer in Ghana were described around 1971 in the Greater Accra region. The foci were along the Densu River and its tributaries. Later in 1989 additional cases were described in the Asante Akim North district of Ashanti region by van der Werf.

From there the spread and public health importance of the disease remained latent until political and media interests on Buruli ulcer surged around 1992. By 1993, the Ministry of Health had established a passive surveillance system for reporting Buruli ulcer.

The surveillance system established recorded approximately 1,200 cases by the end of 1998 from five regions (Ashanti, Eastern, Greater Accra, Brong Ahafo and Central). A national cases search conducted in 1999 reported over 6,332 cases from all regions.

Currently FHN thru Huttel Health Care works hand in hand with Agogo Hospital in the research and treatment of this disease.

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