The Chief of Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF), Major General Joseph Prince Osei-Owusu, says the GAF medical service is working to promote evidence-based practices among its members to improve healthcare delivery within its facilities and the country as a whole.
According to him, the promotion of evidence-based medical practices would "integrate the best available evidence into the healthcare design making process and achieve optimal health outcomes." Major General Osei-Owusu, who represented the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) of the GAF, Lieutenant General Thomas Oppong-Peprah, said this at the launch of the maiden annual GAF Medical Service Scientific Conference at the 37 Military Hospital Officers Mess in Accra yesterday.
It was on the theme, "Breaking boundaries: Interdisciplinary approaches to health research," and had high-ranking officials from the GAF and the 37 Military Hospital in attendance.
The conference also featured postal viewing and presentations on 53 research works by health professionals in the areas of mental health, obstetrics and gynaecology, quality assurance, chronic infection diseases, radiology, urology, surgery, microbiology, preventive medicine and postgraduate education.