UGMC To Start Hair Transplant In Ghana This Year after so many years. This is indeed good news to men, especially the bald ones.
The University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) will begin performing hair transplants as a sort of plastic surgery for bald people by the end of the year.
The World Health Organization (WHO) describes hair transplantation as a surgical treatment in which hair is transplanted from one part of the body (the donor area, which is typically the back or sides of the head) to a bald, thinning, or recipient area.
Dr Baffoe Gyan, Director of Medical Affairs at the UGMC, stated that the center was in the final stages of introducing the innovation to the public after successfully piloting it.
In an interview with Graphic Online’s Timothy Ngnenbe last Friday, he stated that the endeavor was part of the facility’s ambition to become a world-class hub for all medical solutions.
He stated that the surgeon in charge of the hair transplant innovation received training in New York and returned home to practice, “and we are getting results. The test was conducted on our own doctor, whose hair is now incredibly fine”
“What we are left with is to expand it to the rest of the population, but before we do that, we need to ensure that we have enough doctors to cover the service so that if demand becomes too great, we can handle it,” he said.
According to the World Health Organization, genetics, hormonal changes, medical problems, stress, and certain drugs can all contribute to baldness or hair loss.
The world body goes on to say that the most prevalent type of baldness, androgenetic alopecia (also known as male or female pattern baldness), is mostly inherited and linked to aging and hormones.
Dr. Gyan stated that a team of medical experts was being assembled and trained to get the necessary skills for a complete deployment of the service.
He noted that the UGMC’s youthful medical personnel, who were being trained for the hair transplant, were eager and ready to deliver when the necessary assistance was offered.
He encouraged Ghanaians living overseas who have experience in new medical or clinical solutions to make themselves available and contribute to the growth of local ability to assist people.
“It is our goal that by 2027, we should be able to do almost everything medically possible, so we need all experts, home and abroad, to be part of this journey,” he told reporters.
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