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. 2021 Aug 23;13(1):e1-e4.
doi: 10.4102/phcfm.v13i1.3016.

Person-centred innovations for family medicine and COVID-19 in Ghana: A short report

Daniel O Darko  1
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Person-centred innovations for family medicine and COVID-19 in Ghana: A short report

Daniel O Darko. Afr J Prim Health Care Fam Med. .

Abstract

Countries around the world have mobilised health, social, and economic resources to control the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic since its discovery in December 2019. Primary care as a frontline of many health systems, played a huge role in the management of the current pandemic. This is a short report by Dr Daniel Osafo Darko, a family medicine resident at the Nyaho Medical Centre in Accra, Ghana. It details some contributions of Nyaho Medical Centre to the fight against COVID-19 in Ghana by providing clinical care, using eHealth approaches.

Keywords: COVID-19; Nyaho Medical Centre; eHealth; family medicine; primary health care.

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Conflict of interest statement

The author declares that he has no financial or personal relationships that may have inappropriately influenced him in writing this article.

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Distribution of coronavirus disease 2019 cases and 7-day moving average in Ghana by date sample taken, March 2020 – February 2021.
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