By Benjamin Mensah, GNA
Accra, April 25, GNA- Carepoint Institute for International Training (CIIT), a new institution to provide global training for medical and health professionals and connect the next generation of healthcare leaders with transformative learning experiences in Africa, has been launched in Accra.
The institute will provide international clinical, global health rotations and health technology in Ghana, and its programmes would combine academic rigour with cultural immersion, equipping students and professionals with the knowledge, skills, and global perspective to thrive in the interconnected medical d world.
The launch of the institute, health experts say, pushes Ghana forward in its quest to become a global hub for medical education.
The new institute, collaborating with Rabito Clinic, aims to reshape global health education by placing African institutions at the centre of training, research and knowledge production, while challenging the long-standing model in which African health facilities mainly serve as training grounds for foreign students, with curricula and standards largely set elsewhere.
Dr Sangu Delle, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CarePoint, Dr Sangu Delle, who launched the institute, said Africa had the human resource capacity to close the projected 11 million health worker gap by 2030.
He explained that the institute sought to reverse the existing model by welcoming trainees into systems designed and led by host institutions themselves.
Dr Delle said the model would strengthen supervision, bring clarity to training structures and deepen collaboration between visiting trainees and local health workers.
Naa Prof Edmund Delle Chiir VIII, Paramount Chief of the Nandom Traditional Area, and the President of Rabito Clinic, recalling the happenings during the Covid-19 pandemic, said the opening of CIIT was “more than the opening of an institution. It is the birth of a bridge — connecting classrooms to clinics, Ghana to the globe, and today’s knowledge to tomorrow’s healing.”
He said: “The COVID-19 pandemic taught us, painfully, that no health system is an island. If our health challenges are global, then our training, our collaboration, and our solutions must be global as well.”
He added: Through this learning platform, a nursing student from Nandom will learn alongside a biomedical engineer from Nairobi and a public health fellow from Nova Scotia — not in theory, but in practice, at the bedside, in the lab, and in the community.
Naa Prof Delle said the CIIT would drive on prevention, primary care, and practical skills would be woven into every curriculum, adding that, “we will train clinicians, who can diagnose, but also educators who can demystify and technologists who can design tools for the last mile.”
He said the CIIT therefore would collaborate and partner with nursing colleges, medical schools, and polytechnics across Ghana and beyond to harmonise curricula with real-world competencies, the government, and global partners.
“Students must graduate not just with certificates but with confidence at the point of care,” Na Prof Delle said, adding, “we do not seek to duplicate government effort, we seek to deepen it.
Naa Prof Delle called on colleague chiefs and traditional leaders to open their communities as classrooms, saying, “the best public health training happens where people live.”
Dr Eliza Monroe Wise, the Chief Medical Officer of CarePoint, said Ghana was selected as the launch site because of its stability, safety, and growing health infrastructure.
She indicated that Ghana was selected as the launch site because of its stability, safety, and growing health infrastructure.
She said Ghana offered a range of clinical environments that them ideal for immersive learning experiences.
She announced that the CIIT would partner Harvard Medical School and Mass General Brigham, to ensure global standards and would work with the Ministry of Health and the Ghana Health Service on accreditation and regulation.
Prof Jonathan Herbert Addy, a medical health expert, who chaired the launching, praised the initiative, and said the vision resonates with global health priorities.
“It will provide hands-on interactive training in Ghana for future health care professional,” he said.
GNA
Edited by Linda Asante Agyei