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We’re proud to support local faculty and residents through hands-on training and shared expertise, helping build sustainable urological care for the future. ________________________________________________________ Dear Friends and Supporters, we’re thrilled to share highlights from our recent IVUmed trip to Kumasi, Ghana, where we partnered once again with the dedicated team at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH). This marks our third consecutive year working together to expand access to urologic care and training in the region. Our team arrived on Saturday 8/16 afternoon and quickly got to work the following day. On Sunday, we held a full clinic day, evaluating over 25 patients. Due to the high volume and complexity of cases, we split into two teams to ensure every patient received the attention they needed. A developed surgical care plans, we were actually blessed to have access to an ultrasound machine in the clinic and performed a few bedside ultrasounds evaluating bladder tumors and kidney obstruction. The following four days were spent in the operating theater, where we performed: 13 major surgeries, including 6 radical cystectomies, 5 with continent diversion, 4 radical prostatectomies, and two radical nephrectomies. The cases addressed a range of complex urologic conditions. Just as importantly we were able to perform and teach a number of endoscopic procedures from bladder tumor resections to BPH procedures. This is a skill that the residents benefit from the most as their access to appropriate equipment and educational opportunities are limited. In addition, proper endoscopic skills can have long last impacts on the community for diagnosis and therapeutic case management. 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