Cosmopolitan Miracles Outreach Team (Convoy of Miracles) under the umbrella of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation is established in Ghana as a charitable Trust Deed, duly registered on 21st February, 2014 at the Registrar-General's Department in Accra with the registration number CG089012014. On the 16th January, 2015, the foundation's name was changed from Mawuena Foundation to Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation.
This foundation strives to improve the health, material and emotional needs of orphans and vulnerable children, widows and their children, physically and mentally disabled, elderly, students, patients, the poor and the population at large, educating them to prevent diseases, identifying them to pull most of them out of their vulnerable condition through programmes that will uplift them from their predicament to victory where they will become productive to the society.
Our philosophy is based on the reality that every human being is a unique individual and that we all have a right to good health and basic needs and should access means to a comfortable life in one way or another.
We will target the vulnerable groups like the orphans, the widows, the physically and mentally disabled and the poor who will be identified by a rigorous studies of the terrain previously to the day of the realization of the outreach program and give this help to them and then the population of that community at large will also benefit. We hope to take primary health care which is not practically available in Africa to the door step of the individuals in the different communities of Ghana and later with the experience accumulated in Ghana, we shall disseminate to other countries of Africa, taking the good news of primary health care to prolong the life expectancy of our people. The help they need may include knowledge about the prevention of communicable and non-communicable diseases, medical attention, food (for example rice and oil), clothing and toys for the children.
We shall screen and treat conditions like malaria, high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol and triglycerides, anaemia, heart conditions, cervical cancer, prostate cancer, lung conditions, dental conditions, eye conditions, etc. Children will be checked to know whether they are up-to-date with their immunizations and cards will be issued to them once immunized and follow-up groups will be sent to complete the work started. Some of the patients who cannot be managed in the different health care facilities available in the area will be sent to the Cosmopolitan Miracle Hospitals for further treatment. We shall have mobile clinics some on road and others on the water to attend to patients which we can reach only by ferry. This is the case of the populations who live by the banks of the great Volta Lake/River in Ghana. These mobile clinics will allow us to perform simple surgeries like cleft lips, cataracts, as they are going to be equipped with mobile theatres.
We will do outreaches through the media by opening a radio and television station that will educate people on their health and perform advocacy.
The Board of Trustees of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation, led by Dr. Emmanuel Yao Voado, MD., the Founder, will select the Management Committee that will see to the day to day administration of the Cosmopolitan Miracles Outreach Team. He is a Ghanaian neurosurgeon trained in Cuba. He was the medical doctor who first opened a neurosurgical service in the country of Belize. He practiced there for 5 years and worked in the United States for 6 years before relocating to Africa in September, 2013. He is working diligently on the cure of Spinal Cord Injuries.
The Cosmopolitan Miracles Outreach Team will be headquartered in Tsopoli in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana.
This foundation strives to improve the health, material and emotional needs of orphans and vulnerable children, widows and their children, physically and mentally disabled, elderly, students, patients, the poor and the population at large, educating them to prevent diseases, identifying them to pull most of them out of their vulnerable condition through programmes that will uplift them from their predicament to victory where they will become productive to the society.
Our philosophy is based on the reality that every human being is a unique individual and that we all have a right to good health and basic needs and should access means to a comfortable life in one way or another.
We will target the vulnerable groups like the orphans, the widows, the physically and mentally disabled and the poor who will be identified by a rigorous studies of the terrain previously to the day of the realization of the outreach program and give this help to them and then the population of that community at large will also benefit. We hope to take primary health care which is not practically available in Africa to the door step of the individuals in the different communities of Ghana and later with the experience accumulated in Ghana, we shall disseminate to other countries of Africa, taking the good news of primary health care to prolong the life expectancy of our people. The help they need may include knowledge about the prevention of communicable and non-communicable diseases, medical attention, food (for example rice and oil), clothing and toys for the children.
We shall screen and treat conditions like malaria, high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol and triglycerides, anaemia, heart conditions, cervical cancer, prostate cancer, lung conditions, dental conditions, eye conditions, etc. Children will be checked to know whether they are up-to-date with their immunizations and cards will be issued to them once immunized and follow-up groups will be sent to complete the work started. Some of the patients who cannot be managed in the different health care facilities available in the area will be sent to the Cosmopolitan Miracle Hospitals for further treatment. We shall have mobile clinics some on road and others on the water to attend to patients which we can reach only by ferry. This is the case of the populations who live by the banks of the great Volta Lake/River in Ghana. These mobile clinics will allow us to perform simple surgeries like cleft lips, cataracts, as they are going to be equipped with mobile theatres.
We will do outreaches through the media by opening a radio and television station that will educate people on their health and perform advocacy.
The Board of Trustees of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation, led by Dr. Emmanuel Yao Voado, MD., the Founder, will select the Management Committee that will see to the day to day administration of the Cosmopolitan Miracles Outreach Team. He is a Ghanaian neurosurgeon trained in Cuba. He was the medical doctor who first opened a neurosurgical service in the country of Belize. He practiced there for 5 years and worked in the United States for 6 years before relocating to Africa in September, 2013. He is working diligently on the cure of Spinal Cord Injuries.
The Cosmopolitan Miracles Outreach Team will be headquartered in Tsopoli in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana.
Cosmopolitan Miracles Outreach Team (Convoy of Miracles) under the umbrella of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation was established in Ghana as a charitable Trust Deed, duly registered on 21st February, 2014 at the Registrar-General's Department in Accra with the registration number CG089012014. On the 16th January, 2015, the foundation's name was changed from Mawuena Foundation to Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation.
We pursue breaking the backbone of generational poverty where the captives of destiny, the marginalised, shall become the frontliners.
Our purpose is to improve the health, material and emotional needs of orphans and vulnerable children, widows and their children, physically and mentally disabled, elderly, students, patients, the poor and the public at large, educating them to prevent diseases, identifying them to pull most of them out of their vulnerable condition through programmes which will uplift them from their predicament to victory where they will become productive to the society.
Our philosophy is based on the reality that every human being is a unique individual and that we all have a right to good health and basic needs and should access means to a comfortable life in one way or another.
We will do outreaches through the media by opening a radio and television station that will educate people on their health and perform advocacy.
The Board of Trustees of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation, led by Dr. Emmanuel Yao Voado, MD., the Founder, will select the Management Committee that will see to the day to day administration of the Cosmopolitan Miracles Outreach Team. He is a Ghanaian neurosurgeon trained in Cuba. He was the medical doctor who first opened a neurosurgical service in the country of Belize. He practiced there for 5 years and worked in the United States of America for 6 years before relocating to Africa in September, 2013. He is working diligently on the cure of Spinal Cord Injuries.
We pursue breaking the backbone of generational poverty where the captives of destiny, the marginalised, shall become the frontliners.
Our purpose is to improve the health, material and emotional needs of orphans and vulnerable children, widows and their children, physically and mentally disabled, elderly, students, patients, the poor and the public at large, educating them to prevent diseases, identifying them to pull most of them out of their vulnerable condition through programmes which will uplift them from their predicament to victory where they will become productive to the society.
Our philosophy is based on the reality that every human being is a unique individual and that we all have a right to good health and basic needs and should access means to a comfortable life in one way or another.
We will do outreaches through the media by opening a radio and television station that will educate people on their health and perform advocacy.
The Board of Trustees of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation, led by Dr. Emmanuel Yao Voado, MD., the Founder, will select the Management Committee that will see to the day to day administration of the Cosmopolitan Miracles Outreach Team. He is a Ghanaian neurosurgeon trained in Cuba. He was the medical doctor who first opened a neurosurgical service in the country of Belize. He practiced there for 5 years and worked in the United States of America for 6 years before relocating to Africa in September, 2013. He is working diligently on the cure of Spinal Cord Injuries.
The headquarters of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation will be located in Bundase in the Greater Accra Region.
Ghana is located in Western Africa and borders Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, and Togo. This country occupies a total area of 238,533 square kilometers and has a population of approximately 29,786,408 as of January 5, 2019. The population of West Africa is estimated at 387,246,061 people as of January 8, 2019.
Formed from the merger of the British colony of the Gold Coast and the Togoland trust territory, Ghana in 1957 became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence. Ghana endured a series of coups before Lt. Jerry RAWLINGS took power in 1981 and banned political parties. After approving a new constitution and restoring multiparty politics in 1992, RAWLINGS won presidential elections in 1992 and 1996 but was constitutionally prevented from running for a third term in 2000. John KUFUOR of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) succeeded him and was reelected in 2004. John Atta MILLS of the National Democratic Congress won the 2008 presidential election and took over as head of state, but he died in July 2012 and was constitutionally succeeded by his vice president, John Dramani MAHAMA, who subsequently won the December 2012 presidential election. In 2016, however, Nana Addo Dankwa AKUFO-ADDO of the NPP defeated MAHAMA, marking the third time that the Ghana’s presidency has changed parties since the return to democracy.
Economy:
Ghana has a market-based economy with relatively few policy barriers to trade and investment in comparison with other countries in the region, and Ghana is endowed with natural resources. Ghana's economy was strengthened by a quarter century of relatively sound management, a competitive business environment, and sustained reductions in poverty levels, but in recent years has suffered the consequences of loose fiscal policy, high budget and current account deficits, and a depreciating currency.
Agriculture accounts for about 20% of GDP and employs more than half of the workforce, mainly small landholders. Gold, oil, and cocoa exports, and individual remittances, are major sources of foreign exchange. Expansion of Ghana’s nascent oil industry has boosted economic growth, but the fall in oil prices since 2015 reduced by half Ghana’s oil revenue. Production at Jubilee, Ghana's first commercial offshore oilfield, began in mid-December 2010. Production from two more fields, TEN and Sankofa, started in 2016 and 2017 respectively. The country’s first gas processing plant at Atuabo is also producing natural gas from the Jubilee field, providing power to several of Ghana’s thermal power plants.
As of 2018, key economic concerns facing the government include the lack of affordable electricity, lack of a solid domestic revenue base, and the high debt burden. The AKUFO-ADDO administration has made some progress by committing to fiscal consolidation, but much work is still to be done. Ghana signed a $920 million extended credit facility with the IMF in April 2015 to help it address its growing economic crisis. The IMF fiscal targets require Ghana to reduce the deficit by cutting subsidies, decreasing the bloated public sector wage bill, strengthening revenue administration, boosting tax revenues, and improving the health of Ghana’s banking sector. Priorities for the new administration include rescheduling some of Ghana’s $31 billion debt, stimulating economic growth, reducing inflation, and stabilizing the currency. Prospects for new oil and gas production and follow through on tighter fiscal management are likely to help Ghana’s economy in 2018.
GDP (purchasing power parity): $134 billion (2017 est.)
GDP (official exchange rate): $47.02 billion (2017 est.) (2017 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 8.4% (2017 est.)
GDP - per capita (PPP): $4,700 (2017 est.)
GDP - composition, by end use:
household consumption: 80.1% (2017 est.)
government consumption: 8.6% (2017 est.)
investment in fixed capital: 13.7% (2017 est.)
investment in inventories: 1.1% (2017 est.)
exports of goods and services: 43% (2017 est.)
imports of goods and services: -46.5% (2017 est.)
GDP - composition, by sector of origin:
agriculture: 18.3% (2017 est.)
industry: 24.5% (2017 est.)
services: 57.2% (2017 est.)
Agriculture - products: cocoa, rice, cassava (manioc, tapioca), peanuts, corn, shea nuts, bananas; timber
Industries: mining, lumbering, light manufacturing, aluminum smelting, food processing, cement, small commercial ship building, petroleum
Industrial production growth rate: 16.7% (2017 est.)
Labor force: 12.49 million (2017 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 44.7%
industry: 14.4%
services: 40.9% (2013 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 9.6 % ( July,2018.)
Africa is the second-largest continent about 30.2 million km2 (11.7 million sq. mi), after Asia, in size and population. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the west and Europe to the north. The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagos.
The population of Africa is estimated at 1.30 billion people as of 2018 accounting for about 16.64% of the world's human population. Africa's population is the youngest among all the continents; 50% of Africans are 19 years old or younger. The median age is 19.4 years. 41% of the population is urban. Algeria is Africa's largest country by area and Nigeria is the largest by population.
Africa, particularly central Eastern Africa, is widely accepted as the place of origin of humans and the Hominidae clade (great apes), as evidenced by the discovery of the earliest hominids and their ancestors, as well as later ones that have been dated to around seven million years ago.History:
At about 3300 BC, the historical record opens in Northern Africa with the rise of literacy in the Pharaonic civilization of Ancient Egypt. One of the world's earliest and longest-lasting civilizations, the Egyptian state continued, with varying levels of influence over other areas, until 343 BC.Climate:
Africa straddles the equator and encompasses numerous climate areas; it is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to southern temperate zones.
The climate of Africa ranges from tropical to subarctic on its highest peaks. Its northern half is primarily desert, or arid, while its central and southern areas contain both savanna plains and very dense jungle (rainforest) regions. In between, there is a convergence, where vegetation patterns such as Sahel and steppe dominate. Africa is the hottest continent on earth and 60% of the entire land surface consists of dry lands and deserts.Politics:
Today, Africa contains 54 sovereign countries, nine territories and two de facto independent states with limited or no recognition. Connected with the Indian Ocean, the islands of Africa are the Union of the Comoros, Republic of Madagascar, Republic of Seychelles, and Republic of Mauritius. In the Atlantic Ocean we have Republic of Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe. Others are Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, and Eritrea.
The vast majority of African states are republics that operate under some form of the presidential system of rule. The improved stability and economic reforms have led to a great increase in foreign investment into many African nations, mainly from China, which has spurred quick economic growth in many countries, seemingly ending decades of stagnation and decline.
Some seven African countries are in the top 10 fastest growing economies in the world. If you look at countries like Mozambique, Angola, Ethiopia, Zambia, and Togo – all of those markets have shown exceptional growth and real stability and with that you almost get a new investment climate for these countries. This allows you to have a new emerging middle class and with that comes a very vibrant entrepreneurship culture, businessmen or women who want access to technology and to innovate.Natural Resources:
The continent is believed to hold 90% of the world's cobalt, 90% of its platinum, 50% of its gold, 98% of its chromium, 70% of its tantalite, 64% of its manganese and one-third of its uranium. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has 70% of the world's coltan, a mineral used in the production of tantalum capacitors for electronic devices such as cell phones. The DRC also has more than 30% of the world's diamond reserves. Guinea is the world's largest exporter of bauxite.Economy:
From 1995 to 2005, Africa's rate of economic growth increased, averaging 5% in 2005. Some countries experienced still higher growth rates, notably Angola, Sudan and Equatorial Guinea, all of which had recently begun extracting their petroleum reserves or had expanded their oil extraction capacity.
Several African economies are among the world’s fastest growing as of 2011. As of 2013, these are some of the Africa countries growing by more than 5.0% in real Gross Domestic Product (GDP). These are South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Rwanda, Mozambique, Eritrea, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Gabon, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Mauritania, Niger, Congo, Zambia, Angola, Uganda, Togo, Nigeria, Morocco and Kenya.
Africa really has the ideal conditions for steady economic growth. A skyrocketing population made up of predominantly younger people is the perfect recipe for a booming economy.
In 2018 we continue to see the same trend for population growth. Compared to 2017, African’s overall population has increased by more than 30 million – 1,256,268,025 in 2017 versus 1,287,920,518 in 2018.
The World Bank’s projections for the sub-Saharan Africa area. According to their 2018 projections for the continent: regional GDP growth of 3.2% (compared to 2.4% last year) is expected this year and an even greater increase of 3.5% is forecasted for 2019.
That’s why keeping an eye out for the top African countries with the fastest economic growth in 2018 is a total must for every potential investor. The abundance of natural resources and a young workforce is what has driven the economic surge on the continent in recent years.
A significant number of 2018’s top performers are non-commodity intensive economies. The list is led by Ghana, followed by Ethiopia and Côte d’Ivoire, with Senegal, Tanzania and Djibouti occupying the fourth, fifth and sixth spots respectively. Africa has six of the world’s ten fastest growing economies this year, according to the World Bank.
The latest forecast places East African country, Ethiopia at 8.2 percent with the West African nation, Ghana leading the continent at 8.3 percent. Topping the list from the first to the tenth position are: Ghana, Ethiopia, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Benin, Rwanda and Niger.
As the growth in Africa has been driven mainly by services and not manufacturing or agriculture, it has been growth without jobs and without reduction in poverty levels.
The population of Africa is estimated at 1.30 billion people as of 2018 accounting for about 16.64% of the world's human population. Africa's population is the youngest among all the continents; 50% of Africans are 19 years old or younger. The median age is 19.4 years. 41% of the population is urban. Algeria is Africa's largest country by area and Nigeria is the largest by population.
Africa, particularly central Eastern Africa, is widely accepted as the place of origin of humans and the Hominidae clade (great apes), as evidenced by the discovery of the earliest hominids and their ancestors, as well as later ones that have been dated to around seven million years ago.History:
At about 3300 BC, the historical record opens in Northern Africa with the rise of literacy in the Pharaonic civilization of Ancient Egypt. One of the world's earliest and longest-lasting civilizations, the Egyptian state continued, with varying levels of influence over other areas, until 343 BC.Climate:
Africa straddles the equator and encompasses numerous climate areas; it is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to southern temperate zones.
The climate of Africa ranges from tropical to subarctic on its highest peaks. Its northern half is primarily desert, or arid, while its central and southern areas contain both savanna plains and very dense jungle (rainforest) regions. In between, there is a convergence, where vegetation patterns such as Sahel and steppe dominate. Africa is the hottest continent on earth and 60% of the entire land surface consists of dry lands and deserts.Politics:
Today, Africa contains 54 sovereign countries, nine territories and two de facto independent states with limited or no recognition. Connected with the Indian Ocean, the islands of Africa are the Union of the Comoros, Republic of Madagascar, Republic of Seychelles, and Republic of Mauritius. In the Atlantic Ocean we have Republic of Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe. Others are Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, and Eritrea.
The vast majority of African states are republics that operate under some form of the presidential system of rule. The improved stability and economic reforms have led to a great increase in foreign investment into many African nations, mainly from China, which has spurred quick economic growth in many countries, seemingly ending decades of stagnation and decline.
Some seven African countries are in the top 10 fastest growing economies in the world. If you look at countries like Mozambique, Angola, Ethiopia, Zambia, and Togo – all of those markets have shown exceptional growth and real stability and with that you almost get a new investment climate for these countries. This allows you to have a new emerging middle class and with that comes a very vibrant entrepreneurship culture, businessmen or women who want access to technology and to innovate.Natural Resources:
The continent is believed to hold 90% of the world's cobalt, 90% of its platinum, 50% of its gold, 98% of its chromium, 70% of its tantalite, 64% of its manganese and one-third of its uranium. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has 70% of the world's coltan, a mineral used in the production of tantalum capacitors for electronic devices such as cell phones. The DRC also has more than 30% of the world's diamond reserves. Guinea is the world's largest exporter of bauxite.Economy:
From 1995 to 2005, Africa's rate of economic growth increased, averaging 5% in 2005. Some countries experienced still higher growth rates, notably Angola, Sudan and Equatorial Guinea, all of which had recently begun extracting their petroleum reserves or had expanded their oil extraction capacity.
Several African economies are among the world’s fastest growing as of 2011. As of 2013, these are some of the Africa countries growing by more than 5.0% in real Gross Domestic Product (GDP). These are South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Rwanda, Mozambique, Eritrea, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Gabon, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Mauritania, Niger, Congo, Zambia, Angola, Uganda, Togo, Nigeria, Morocco and Kenya.
Africa really has the ideal conditions for steady economic growth. A skyrocketing population made up of predominantly younger people is the perfect recipe for a booming economy.
In 2018 we continue to see the same trend for population growth. Compared to 2017, African’s overall population has increased by more than 30 million – 1,256,268,025 in 2017 versus 1,287,920,518 in 2018.
The World Bank’s projections for the sub-Saharan Africa area. According to their 2018 projections for the continent: regional GDP growth of 3.2% (compared to 2.4% last year) is expected this year and an even greater increase of 3.5% is forecasted for 2019.
That’s why keeping an eye out for the top African countries with the fastest economic growth in 2018 is a total must for every potential investor. The abundance of natural resources and a young workforce is what has driven the economic surge on the continent in recent years.
A significant number of 2018’s top performers are non-commodity intensive economies. The list is led by Ghana, followed by Ethiopia and Côte d’Ivoire, with Senegal, Tanzania and Djibouti occupying the fourth, fifth and sixth spots respectively. Africa has six of the world’s ten fastest growing economies this year, according to the World Bank.
The latest forecast places East African country, Ethiopia at 8.2 percent with the West African nation, Ghana leading the continent at 8.3 percent. Topping the list from the first to the tenth position are: Ghana, Ethiopia, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Benin, Rwanda and Niger.
As the growth in Africa has been driven mainly by services and not manufacturing or agriculture, it has been growth without jobs and without reduction in poverty levels.
Born in 1971 to a Christian family of scarce resources in Tefle, Volta Region, Ghana, he always dreamed of breaking the back bone of poverty through education. At the age of 12, he received a prophecy that he would be going abroad to further his education. In 1985, at age 14, the prophecy was accomplished but not without difficulties. After taking the exams to send students to Cuba, he placed first in his district but was unlawfully replaced by the son of the most powerful politician of the district. A concerned citizen sent him to the office of President Jerry John Rawlings, when he was allowed to participate in the national test in which he became first. This event was indeed a shock to many.
He was in Cuba for 17 years, right from the junior high school to the medical school and subsequently to the postgraduate specialist course of Neurosurgery. While in Cuba as a student, he continued the brilliant academic work; he won many awards including best student in Chemistry at the Cuban National Level Quizzes for 3 consecutive years where students from 35 countries then studied. He wrote an Organic Chemistry book which was meant for the preparation of the high performance students who aspired to participate in the World Olympiad of Chemistry. He was summa cum laude (first) in all the levels of education including the medical school and the Specialty of Neurosurgery. At the end of the neurosurgical training, he wrote another book in the field of Spinal Surgery called Lumbosacral Discopathies.
When he completed the Neurosurgical course in 2001, the people of Belize found him and took him to that country as they needed Neurosurgical Services which they had never had the privilege of enjoying locally. He performed simple and complex surgeries on many people including the elite of Belize with no surgical mortality in his 5 consecutive years of practice. In the USA, under Dr. Robert Grossman, a well-known neurosurgeon, he worked as a Clinical Research Specialist where he was invited by the Congress of Neurological Surgeons of America to present six papers in their international conferences.
He is Belizean and American citizen by naturalization. After 28 years, he has decided to come back to Africa to help his people as he has come to the convincing realization that he is more needed here than in the United States of America.
He was in Cuba for 17 years, right from the junior high school to the medical school and subsequently to the postgraduate specialist course of Neurosurgery. While in Cuba as a student, he continued the brilliant academic work; he won many awards including best student in Chemistry at the Cuban National Level Quizzes for 3 consecutive years where students from 35 countries then studied. He wrote an Organic Chemistry book which was meant for the preparation of the high performance students who aspired to participate in the World Olympiad of Chemistry. He was summa cum laude (first) in all the levels of education including the medical school and the Specialty of Neurosurgery. At the end of the neurosurgical training, he wrote another book in the field of Spinal Surgery called Lumbosacral Discopathies.
When he completed the Neurosurgical course in 2001, the people of Belize found him and took him to that country as they needed Neurosurgical Services which they had never had the privilege of enjoying locally. He performed simple and complex surgeries on many people including the elite of Belize with no surgical mortality in his 5 consecutive years of practice. In the USA, under Dr. Robert Grossman, a well-known neurosurgeon, he worked as a Clinical Research Specialist where he was invited by the Congress of Neurological Surgeons of America to present six papers in their international conferences.
He is Belizean and American citizen by naturalization. After 28 years, he has decided to come back to Africa to help his people as he has come to the convincing realization that he is more needed here than in the United States of America.
Dr. Emmanuel Voado, MD., is a Ghanaian neurosurgeon trained in Cuba. He was the medical doctor who first opened a neurosurgical service in the country of Belize. He practiced there for 5 years before going to the United States where he resided with his family for 6 years before relocating to Africa in September, 2013.
In Cuba, he was directly involved in the educational system for 17 years and impacted by their health care delivery for 11 years which can all be emulated by third world countries like Ghana who have more natural resources and foreign exchange earners than Cuba. He saw the Cuban government training thousands of students of foreign nations in different courses at the polytechnic and university levels, who then went to their home countries to contribute to their development.
He lived in Belize where he contributed to the healthcare delivery in that nation. Once in the USA, he was personally impacted by all the good things of the American system. One area is the safety network to cater for the destitute.
He saw the compassionate character of the Americans in the hospitals and churches which were the two environments he worked and worshiped and he saw how the two organizations will selflessly use their vacation days to go about doing good to the impoverished nations giving out their substance and technical knowhow.
He was deeply touched by this spirit of selflessness and all this helped to shape his world view in the subconscious level till he came to the conscious realization that a meaningful life is not being rich, being popular, being highly educated or being prefect...It is about being real, being humble, being able to share ourselves and touch the lives of others. It is only then that we could have a full, happy and contented life. That is the motive why, by divine grace, he had been able to abandon the lucrative and most rewarding jobs in the Diaspora and now back home to give back to his people.
In Cuba, he was directly involved in the educational system for 17 years and impacted by their health care delivery for 11 years which can all be emulated by third world countries like Ghana who have more natural resources and foreign exchange earners than Cuba. He saw the Cuban government training thousands of students of foreign nations in different courses at the polytechnic and university levels, who then went to their home countries to contribute to their development.
He lived in Belize where he contributed to the healthcare delivery in that nation. Once in the USA, he was personally impacted by all the good things of the American system. One area is the safety network to cater for the destitute.
He saw the compassionate character of the Americans in the hospitals and churches which were the two environments he worked and worshiped and he saw how the two organizations will selflessly use their vacation days to go about doing good to the impoverished nations giving out their substance and technical knowhow.
He was deeply touched by this spirit of selflessness and all this helped to shape his world view in the subconscious level till he came to the conscious realization that a meaningful life is not being rich, being popular, being highly educated or being prefect...It is about being real, being humble, being able to share ourselves and touch the lives of others. It is only then that we could have a full, happy and contented life. That is the motive why, by divine grace, he had been able to abandon the lucrative and most rewarding jobs in the Diaspora and now back home to give back to his people.
The necessity to get our environment, communities and our individual homes clean and tidy is the principal way of preventing infectious diseases in the third world countries, especially Africa. Dangerous infectious diseases like Malaria, Ebola Virus disease, Typhoid fever, Hepatitis and parasites are only examples of many communicable diseases which take the lives of our precious family members at premature ages just because of the dirty environments we create out of ignorance in our surroundings. Lack of knowledge about the factors that contribute to the prevention of both communicable and non-communicable diseases is the main cause of premature death in Africa.
Ghana has more natural resources and income per capita than a country like Cuba, but the Cubans have a much higher life expectancy than Ghana because of the special attention that primary healthcare has in Cuba where the population is educated about the necessity to get their environments clean, a balanced diet and the early detection of both chronic diseases and communicable diseases.
In Ghana people eat, salted fish and very starchy foods on daily basis till they develop stroke and yet they do not still have a clue about what led to their disease were hypertension and diabetes as a result of this unhealthy life style. People are walking on the street with very high blood pressure and high blood sugar levels without even knowing they carry a time bomb till the complication due to those conditions pop up in the form of stroke, heart attack, and kidney failure, a time when there is practically little that can be done for them.
There is not sufficient education through the media about the necessity to eat right, to do exercise and to maintain our surroundings clean. Many countries have been able to minimize the prevalence of HIV/AIDS but Africa is still struggling with this condition which is wiping out the youth which are the main workforce of our countries.
Cancer is in Africa too where there is no nationally well-coordinated programmes to help screen these patients and deal with the condition at its earlier stage and hence the high mortality rate of cancers which, in the developed world today, are almost/completely curable if detected earlier.
There are no credible statistics in Ghana about the incidence and prevalence of many diseases. What I know is that my parents died of complications of hypertension, especially stroke before they even knew that they were hypertensive. When one visits the villages of Ghana, both the middle aged and the old aged individuals are paralysed on one side using walking aids and in the worst of the cases, they are bedridden with pressure ulcers and many do not have the possibility of getting access to wheel chairs. When patients go to the doctors in this part of the world, the doctor diagnoses hypertension and/or diabetes and generally no education is given to patients on the non-pharmacologic management of these conditions before prescribing the medications which, in general, are taken for life. Mostly, when the diabetes and high blood pressure patients receive the prescription pertaining to these conditions for the first time, they always alleged that, they did not know they have to go back to the pharmacy and refill for the said medications. As a result, they undergo the treatment for one month and abandon it because they feel they are definitely cured of these chronic conditions. The next time they visit the doctor is when they appear at the emergency department because of complications secondary to these conditions.
Ghana has more natural resources and income per capita than a country like Cuba, but the Cubans have a much higher life expectancy than Ghana because of the special attention that primary healthcare has in Cuba where the population is educated about the necessity to get their environments clean, a balanced diet and the early detection of both chronic diseases and communicable diseases.
In Ghana people eat, salted fish and very starchy foods on daily basis till they develop stroke and yet they do not still have a clue about what led to their disease were hypertension and diabetes as a result of this unhealthy life style. People are walking on the street with very high blood pressure and high blood sugar levels without even knowing they carry a time bomb till the complication due to those conditions pop up in the form of stroke, heart attack, and kidney failure, a time when there is practically little that can be done for them.
There is not sufficient education through the media about the necessity to eat right, to do exercise and to maintain our surroundings clean. Many countries have been able to minimize the prevalence of HIV/AIDS but Africa is still struggling with this condition which is wiping out the youth which are the main workforce of our countries.
Cancer is in Africa too where there is no nationally well-coordinated programmes to help screen these patients and deal with the condition at its earlier stage and hence the high mortality rate of cancers which, in the developed world today, are almost/completely curable if detected earlier.
There are no credible statistics in Ghana about the incidence and prevalence of many diseases. What I know is that my parents died of complications of hypertension, especially stroke before they even knew that they were hypertensive. When one visits the villages of Ghana, both the middle aged and the old aged individuals are paralysed on one side using walking aids and in the worst of the cases, they are bedridden with pressure ulcers and many do not have the possibility of getting access to wheel chairs. When patients go to the doctors in this part of the world, the doctor diagnoses hypertension and/or diabetes and generally no education is given to patients on the non-pharmacologic management of these conditions before prescribing the medications which, in general, are taken for life. Mostly, when the diabetes and high blood pressure patients receive the prescription pertaining to these conditions for the first time, they always alleged that, they did not know they have to go back to the pharmacy and refill for the said medications. As a result, they undergo the treatment for one month and abandon it because they feel they are definitely cured of these chronic conditions. The next time they visit the doctor is when they appear at the emergency department because of complications secondary to these conditions.
The inspiration came from the fact that the level of affliction and suffering of orphans and vulnerable children, widows and their children, physically and mentally disabled, elderly, patients, students, the poor and the public at large, can be alleviated through outreach programmes extended to these vulnerable groups of our society.
Therefore, there is the need for an outreach team that will:
• reduce the suffering of the orphans and vulnerable children, widows and their children, physically and mentally disabled, elderly, the poor, students, patients and the public at large by giving them love and care, meeting their physical and emotional needs, educating them to prevent diseases, identifying them to pull most of them out of their vulnerable condition through programmes that will uplift them from their predicament to victory where they become productive to the society.
• ensure non-discrimination and equal enjoyment of all human rights through the promotion of an active and visible policy of destigmatisation of individuals and their children orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. We want to build the capacities to provide a supportive environment for individuals infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
• create awareness to the community and the outside world about the need to protect and maintain their health.
Therefore, there is the need for an outreach team that will:
• reduce the suffering of the orphans and vulnerable children, widows and their children, physically and mentally disabled, elderly, the poor, students, patients and the public at large by giving them love and care, meeting their physical and emotional needs, educating them to prevent diseases, identifying them to pull most of them out of their vulnerable condition through programmes that will uplift them from their predicament to victory where they become productive to the society.
• ensure non-discrimination and equal enjoyment of all human rights through the promotion of an active and visible policy of destigmatisation of individuals and their children orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. We want to build the capacities to provide a supportive environment for individuals infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
• create awareness to the community and the outside world about the need to protect and maintain their health.
The Cosmopolitan Miracles Outreach Team is a dynamic force that is projected to our society to help alleviate the problems of orphans and vulnerable children, widows and their children, physically and mentally disabled, elderly, patients, students, the poor and the public at large.
The outreach team will go to vulnerable communities of our cities, towns and villages to diagnose their needs taking into account the demographics of our target groups, their location and then the outreach execution team will go with the help they need. The help they need may include knowledge about the prevention of communicable and non-communicable diseases, medical attention, food (for example rice and oil), clothing and toys for the children.
We will target the vulnerable groups like the orphans, the widows, the physically and mentally disabled and the poor who will be identified by a rigorous study of the terrain previously to the day of the realization of the outreach programme and give this help to them and then the population of that community at large will also benefit.
We hope to take primary health care which is not practically available in Africa to the door step of the individuals in the different communities of Ghana and later with the experience accumulated in Ghana, we shall disseminate to other countries of Africa, taking the good news of primary health care to prolong the life expectancy of our people.
We shall screen and treat conditions like malaria, high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol and triglycerides, anaemia, heart conditions, cervical cancer, prostate cancer, lung conditions, dental conditions, eye conditions, etc. Children will be checked to know whether they are up-to-date with their immunisations and cards will be issued to them once immunised and follow-up groups will be sent to complete the work started.
Some of the patients who cannot be managed in the different health facilities available in the area will be sent to the Cosmopolitan Miracle Hospitals for further treatment.
We shall have mobile clinics some on road and others on the water to attend to patients which we can reach only by ferry. This is the case of the populations who live by the banks of the great Volta River /Lake. These mobile clinics will allow us to perform simple surgeries like cleft lips, cataracts, etc. as they are going to be equipped with mobile theatres.
We will do outreaches through the media by opening a radio and television station that will educate people on their health. We will champion a strong advocacy voice to the law makers in order to engineer changes in government policies to address these vital issues of primary health care at the political level.
The outreach team will go to vulnerable communities of our cities, towns and villages to diagnose their needs taking into account the demographics of our target groups, their location and then the outreach execution team will go with the help they need. The help they need may include knowledge about the prevention of communicable and non-communicable diseases, medical attention, food (for example rice and oil), clothing and toys for the children.
We will target the vulnerable groups like the orphans, the widows, the physically and mentally disabled and the poor who will be identified by a rigorous study of the terrain previously to the day of the realization of the outreach programme and give this help to them and then the population of that community at large will also benefit.
We hope to take primary health care which is not practically available in Africa to the door step of the individuals in the different communities of Ghana and later with the experience accumulated in Ghana, we shall disseminate to other countries of Africa, taking the good news of primary health care to prolong the life expectancy of our people.
We shall screen and treat conditions like malaria, high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol and triglycerides, anaemia, heart conditions, cervical cancer, prostate cancer, lung conditions, dental conditions, eye conditions, etc. Children will be checked to know whether they are up-to-date with their immunisations and cards will be issued to them once immunised and follow-up groups will be sent to complete the work started.
Some of the patients who cannot be managed in the different health facilities available in the area will be sent to the Cosmopolitan Miracle Hospitals for further treatment.
We shall have mobile clinics some on road and others on the water to attend to patients which we can reach only by ferry. This is the case of the populations who live by the banks of the great Volta River /Lake. These mobile clinics will allow us to perform simple surgeries like cleft lips, cataracts, etc. as they are going to be equipped with mobile theatres.
We will do outreaches through the media by opening a radio and television station that will educate people on their health. We will champion a strong advocacy voice to the law makers in order to engineer changes in government policies to address these vital issues of primary health care at the political level.
Accra, the capital of Ghana, is furthermore the anchor of a larger metropolitan area, the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), which is home to about 4 million people, making it the largest metropolitan conglomeration in Ghana by population, and the eleventh-largest metropolitan area in Africa.
The headquarters of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation will be located in Bundase in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area. This is going to be the site for the new international airport which will become the center of West Africa to the world in the travel and pleasure industry. Apart from this huge international airport, there will be an Airport City with skyscrapers of the Dubai style, the seat of the government and all the ministries, an Olympic Stadium among other infrastructures.
We are acquiring 25, 000 acres of land extending from the Volta River to an area behind the new International Airport in Bundase, to build The Kingdom City which will englobe all the structures of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation. As coalition builders, in the effort of making our projects become auto-sustainable in the future, we will work co-operatively with all individuals and groups, for profit and not for profit corporations and organisations, with government agencies and international bodies committed to the fight to extend help to the needy, subject only to the policies and priorities set by our governing bodies.
The headquarters of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation will be located in Bundase in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area. This is going to be the site for the new international airport which will become the center of West Africa to the world in the travel and pleasure industry. Apart from this huge international airport, there will be an Airport City with skyscrapers of the Dubai style, the seat of the government and all the ministries, an Olympic Stadium among other infrastructures.
We are acquiring 25, 000 acres of land extending from the Volta River to an area behind the new International Airport in Bundase, to build The Kingdom City which will englobe all the structures of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation. As coalition builders, in the effort of making our projects become auto-sustainable in the future, we will work co-operatively with all individuals and groups, for profit and not for profit corporations and organisations, with government agencies and international bodies committed to the fight to extend help to the needy, subject only to the policies and priorities set by our governing bodies.
We shall need 3 mobile clinics, a mobile dental clinic, a mobile eye clinic, and a mobile x-ray clinic with ultrasound machine and a mobile surgical theatre. We will also need a mobile ferry with which we will go along the Volta River/Lake trying to reach those who cannot be accessed via road network.
As the vision progresses we will have a helicopter to go and convey critically ill patients at far or inaccessible places who without this means of transportation will surely die.
We shall need the following equipment and supplies:
• 10 stretchers to aid in having the patients in the mobile clinics. We need 36 bed sheets and 36 blankets.
• 50 theatre scrubs wears (colours blue and green). Sizes: 20 extra-large, 20 large, 10 medium.
• 200 theatre disposable gowns and 10 theatre shoes (clogs): 3 size m(12/13) and 3 size m(11/10) and 3 size m(9/10), 1 size m(8/9).
• 3 buses for the outreach team.
• 20 glucometres and their consumable supplies.
• 20 cholesterol testing analyzers or lipid profile equipment and their consumable supplies.
• Haemoglobin and Haematocrit testing equipment and their consumable supplies.
• Cardio check.
• 20 Sphygmomanometers and 20 Stethoscopes.
• Papanicolau Testing Set to screen women for cervical cancer.
• Vaccines to help immunize on schedule or help catch-up those who did not receive a given vaccine in time.
• 10 laptops for the entry of patient’s data for follow-up purposes and statistics.
• 10 canopies and a sound system for public announcement.
• A radio and TV station to help spread the good news of health care wellness.
As the vision progresses we will have a helicopter to go and convey critically ill patients at far or inaccessible places who without this means of transportation will surely die.
We shall need the following equipment and supplies:
• 10 stretchers to aid in having the patients in the mobile clinics. We need 36 bed sheets and 36 blankets.
• 50 theatre scrubs wears (colours blue and green). Sizes: 20 extra-large, 20 large, 10 medium.
• 200 theatre disposable gowns and 10 theatre shoes (clogs): 3 size m(12/13) and 3 size m(11/10) and 3 size m(9/10), 1 size m(8/9).
• 3 buses for the outreach team.
• 20 glucometres and their consumable supplies.
• 20 cholesterol testing analyzers or lipid profile equipment and their consumable supplies.
• Haemoglobin and Haematocrit testing equipment and their consumable supplies.
• Cardio check.
• 20 Sphygmomanometers and 20 Stethoscopes.
• Papanicolau Testing Set to screen women for cervical cancer.
• Vaccines to help immunize on schedule or help catch-up those who did not receive a given vaccine in time.
• 10 laptops for the entry of patient’s data for follow-up purposes and statistics.
• 10 canopies and a sound system for public announcement.
• A radio and TV station to help spread the good news of health care wellness.
Doctors of all specialties can participate together with medical officers, medical students, psychologists, nurses and nursing students, x-ray technicians, laboratory technicians, dentists, drivers and all paramedical and non-paramedical personnel who can volunteer in different capacities.
We will have 4 wheel drive vehicles(SUVs) due to the deplorable nature our roads for the outreach team that will do the research of the needs of the communities we shall visit. They will identify and quantify the vulnerable groups like the orphans and vulnerable children, widows and their children, physically and mentally disabled, elderly, patients, students and disadvantaged people and diseases such as High Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Cancer, Malaria, Immunisable diseases and AIDS.
1. Children orphaned by the death of both parents.
2. Children orphaned by the death of one productive parent where children are left vulnerable in the company of the non-productive widow(er).
3. Widows and their children
4. Physically disabled including the deaf and the blind
5. Mentally disabled
6. Elderly
7. Patients, laying a special emphasis on the prevention and treatment of High Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Cancer, HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Ebola virus disease, partially immunised and unimmunised patients.
8. Students
9. The poor people of our society that do not have access to food, clothing, toys and health care.
10. The population at large, screening them in search for diseases before they manifest in their bodies or detecting the ones that are there that they ignore.
We are grounded on the values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence (I CARE) principle.
We also believe in equality for all, rights and dignity for all, stewardship and respects for international initiatives and national policies to take care and give support to orphans and vulnerable children, widows and their children, physically and mentally disabled, elderly, patients, students and disadvantaged people, fight poverty, ignorance and diseases such as High Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Cancer, Malaria, Immunisable diseases and AIDS.
With your collaboration, we both seek to:
• help the patients of Ghana and Africa as a whole achieve a higher knowledge of their health.
• change the health indicators through education via the mass media, advocacy and practical help to the healthy, to those who are ill and do not know it and to patients.
• diminish hunger as we reach out to those who lack daily bread.
• clothe the naked.
• prolong the life expectancy of our people.
We also believe in equality for all, rights and dignity for all, stewardship and respects for international initiatives and national policies to take care and give support to orphans and vulnerable children, widows and their children, physically and mentally disabled, elderly, patients, students and disadvantaged people, fight poverty, ignorance and diseases such as High Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Cancer, Malaria, Immunisable diseases and AIDS.
With your collaboration, we both seek to:
• help the patients of Ghana and Africa as a whole achieve a higher knowledge of their health.
• change the health indicators through education via the mass media, advocacy and practical help to the healthy, to those who are ill and do not know it and to patients.
• diminish hunger as we reach out to those who lack daily bread.
• clothe the naked.
• prolong the life expectancy of our people.
As a matter of fact the finances are coming from our own sources but as the vision progresses we hope to get both local and international donors to help us accomplish the full extension of the programmes we have envisaged.