Shirley Sarah Dadson, MBChB Candidate at the University of Ghana Medical School and 2025 POHER Scholar, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“New Publication Alert
Breast cancer survivors deserve more than survival.
In Ghana, mastectomy is covered by our National Health Insurance.
But breast reconstruction? It is often dismissed as “cosmetic.” As if dignity, body image, and wholeness don’t matter.
Fewer than 20 plastic surgeons serve 34 million people in Ghana. For many women, the “choice” of reconstruction is not a choice at all. Reconstruction is not vanity. It is essential surgery. It’s the difference between hiding in shame and walking back into life with confidence.
This is exactly the work we are pursuing through the Association of Future African Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (AfroPRS) where we are training, advocating, and proving that African patients deserve complete care.
My new publication argues for a future where survival is only the beginning.
A future where every woman in Africa has access to complete care.
So I’ll ask you Paul Farmer’s question:
If access to health care is a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?
Link.”
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