Comparing adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes in adolescent versus adult mothers in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Objective: Adolescent pregnancy is a major social and public health problem that burdens affected families, the communities and societies globally. It has been associated with a higher prevalence of adverse pregnancy outcomes compared to pregnancy in adults. To compare adverse pregnancy outcomes in adolescents (13-19 years) and those in adults (20 to 35 years) at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana and investigate the associated factors among adolescents.

A giant 25 litre volume ovarian cystic mucinous borderline ovarian tumour with intraepithelial carcinoma in a 24-year-old nulliparous woman: Case report.

Introduction And Importance: Giant ovarian cysts are rare and usually pose significant diagnostic challenges especially in adolescents and young adults. There is limited report of such cases reported in existing literature with hardly any cases published from the Sub-Sharan African region.

Case Presentation: We present the case of a 24-year-old young woman who reported to our gynaecology clinic on the 23rd of January 2023 with a year's history of a progressively increasing abdominopelvic mass.

Surgical site infections following caesarean sections in the largest teaching hospital in Ghana.

Background: Surgical site infections complicate up to 15% of all surgical procedures depending on surgery type and underlying patient status. They constitute 14-31% of all hospital-acquired infections, placing huge financial burdens on patients, healthcare institutions and the nation.

Objective: To determine the incidence, risk factors, microbiological aetiology and antibiotic susceptibility patterns of surgical-site infections following caesarean sections (CSs) at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), Accra, Ghana.

The role of electricity consumption, capital, labor force, carbon emissions on economic growth: implication for environmental sustainability targets in Nigeria.

Despite consistent investments, grants, and other concessions in the power sector, nationwide power outages still remain an issue, even in 2020, disrupting business operations, contributing to huge recurrent expenses on generators and alternative sources of electricity in homes, businesses, and institutions. In this paper, we examine the role of electricity consumption on economic growth, while controlling for labor, capital, and carbon emissions, using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) and the novel dynamic ARDL (DYNARDL) simulation analysis over the periods 1981-2019. Empirical results show that electricity consumption, capital, and labor exert positive inelastic impacts, while carbon emissions exert negative inelastic significant impact on economic growth within the period under investigation.

Venous thromboembolism risk and prophylaxis in hospitalized obstetric patients at a tertiary hospital in Accra, Ghana: A comparative cross-sectional study.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of venous thromboembolism risk and thromboprophylaxis among obstetric inpatients, comparing prenatal and postnatal women.

Methods: We assessed 546 obstetric inpatients at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital for the prevalence study. Out of this number, 223 were recruited, comprising 111 prenatal and 112 postnatal mothers.