A Golden Heart The commitment and contribution of a Chinese specialist to Ghanaian cardiology development

• 作者: Li Xiaoyu
• 来源期刊: 中国与非洲（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（7）
• 所属期刊栏目: Lifestyle
• 页码范围: 52-53
• 页数: 2页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Dr. Yaw Adu-Boakye from Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi, central Ghana, made headlines in October 2019. The young cardiologist and his colleagues successfully implanted a pacemaker in a teenage girl. This was the first minimally invasive heart surgery performed by Ghanaian cardiologists after decades of open-heart surgery that usually left permanent scars on patients. Proud of himself, Adu-Boakye announced the establishment of the first team in Ghana to install pacemakers that regulate the rhythm of heartbeats in patients with cardiac abnormalities. He was particularly pleased with this achievement in the presence of his Chinese mentor, Dr. Lin Chunying. It was obvious that his one-year training under Lin at the Cardiovascular Institute of Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (GPPH) in 2015 played a central role in this success.