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Ghanaian doctor successfully performs penile implant

The surgery was done in collaboration with the Peace and Love Hospital and Derry Court Medical Practice.

He is the first Ghanaian doctor to have done such a surgery in Ghana.

The surgery was performed at the Kumasi South Hospital in the Ashanti Region.

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The surgery was performed by a 4 member team; Dr Samuel Amanamah, Dr. (Mrs.) Beatrice Wiafe Addai, Kofi Owusu Gyimah, and Esther Antwi.

Dr Amanamah was the leader of the team.

The happy Dr Amanamah said, “this was a dream come true, that Ghanaians can now access this treatment in Ghana.”

Penile implants are devices placed inside the penis to allow men with erectile dysfunction to get an erection. Penile implants are typically recommended after other treatments for erectile dysfunction fail.

Erectile dysfunction is a silent “emotional killer” which plaques half of the men between age 40 – 70 years.

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It is estimated that only about 10% of patients seek professional help although orthodox medicine practitioners confidently say that all men with erectile dysfunction can be treated.

Experts say the advantage of this surgery is that patients, who successfully undergo it, resume a normal sexual life with their partners.

After the surgery, experts say that patients can have as many children as they want; if they were fertile prior to the surgery.

Dr Amanamah urged the public to see erectile dysfunction as a disease like any other disease (Malaria, Typhoid etc.) and seek professional help and desist from just shopping around for the latest drug in town.

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He further called on health personnel to take reports of erectile dysfunction seriously and help the patients.

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