FOCOS’s mission is to provide comprehensive, affordable orthopedic care to those who would not otherwise have access to such treatment.

“No one should have to suffer from debilitating back and spinal conditions when treatment is possible, and the Foundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine does inspiring work that is changing lives,” said Michael R. Bloomberg who is the founder of Bloomberg LP, a philanthropist and a three-term Mayor of New York City. “Georgina and are I honored to receive this award and glad to support such an important cause.”

Michael and Georgina Bloomberg are devoted philanthropist for important causes both within the United States and abroad. Michael Bloomberg founded the New York City based Bloomberg Philanthropies and has pledged to donate the majority of his wealth to charity. FOCOS is honoring the Bloombergs to celebrate the depth and reach of their longtime commitment to helping others in need, public health and a variety of other essential causes including animal rights, the environment, the arts, government innovation and education.

“After a long history of back pain due to a condition I was born with, Dr. Boachie was able to correct my condition and change my life. I chose him not only for his reputation in the medical world but for the kind and generous person he was. I had a great deal of respect for his commitment to giving back and remembering where he came from,” said Georgina Bloomberg. “I knew immediately that I wanted to support him in his efforts to help others and give them the same pain-free existence that he was able to give me. It’s an honor to have had him as my surgeon but an even bigger honor to be a part of the great work he is doing in Ghana through FOCOS.”

The 10th Annual New York FOCOS Gala will highlight the many success of the organization over the past 19 years of work while also sharing our path forward towards sustaining our ability to provide life-saving treatment to patients from across the globe.

“We are elated to celebrate the incredibly important and far-reaching philanthropic work of Michael Bloomberg and his daughter Georgina Bloomberg, whose commitment to the welfare of people changes lives each and every day,” said Dr. Oheneba Boachie-Adjei, world renowned orthopedic surgeon and President and Founder of FOCOS. “In addition to many other vital causes, we want to recognize the Bloomberg’s for helping us make possible the opening of FOCOS Hospital with state of the art facilities including the Bloomberg Pavilion, the center of financial and administrative operations for our hospital.”

For more information about FOCOS and the 2017 Gala, visit www.orthofocos.org. And for more information about FOCOS Orthopedic Hospital visit www.focoshospitalgh.com.

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Proceeds from the event will go into the FOCOS Endowment Fund to support needy children who require surgery as well as to equip the paediatric ward and multi-purpose classroom and activity centre for children.

For over a decade, FOCOS has been supporting children who would have otherwise remained stigmatized, isolated and even died from various degrees of spine deformities across Africa.  With the support of philanthropists over the world, FOCOS has fully sponsored and carried out life-saving surgeries on at least 500 children with the selfless leadership of Prof. Oheneba Boachie-Adjei, the internationally acclaimed Spine Surgeon, who is also the Founder and current President of FOCOS. Since 1998, Prof. Boachie-Adjei and his team of FOCOS volunteers have completed hundreds of complex spine surgeries and joint replacement surgeries on adult and pediatric patients from Ghana and all over the world.

“In the past, individuals and organizations outside Ghana like FOCOS USA, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJJDC), Africa Surgery Inc. and others, have supported many children undergo life-changing surgeries,” said Prof Oheneba Boachie-Adjei. According to the CEO and Founder, without these surgeries the life expectancies of these children would have been about 20 to 30 years. “The spine is a vital organ to the human system and children who have defects with their spine cannot engage in sporting activities and normally do not live long if the right attention is not given to them in time,” he added.

The top world-renowned surgeon calls on individuals, NGOs and corporate organizations to support the worthy cause. “I entreat corporate groups, individual philanthropists and foundations to give a child the chance to live a normal life and live longer to contribute their quota to society,” Prof. Boachie-Adjei has said.

In the past, FOCOS has organized fundraising events in the US and Hong Kong to assist many Ghanaian and African children whose families could not afford their surgeries. The target for this fundraising event in Ghana is GHS5,000,000. So far organizations like Newmont Ghana, Glico, Latex Foam, House of Saphori, Touchpoint Magna Carta, Team 1000 words, Multimedia and Mantrac Ghana have made donations towards this worthy cause. Dignitaries like His Excellency FLT LT Jerry John Rawlings, His Excellency John Agyekum Kufuor, have agreed to support the occasion.

The public can contribute towards the fundraising by either buying tickets to attend the event at 600 GHC for one or 1000 GHC for two or call 020-0000856/ 020319040. Alternatively, the public can contribute to the Foundation for Orthopaedics and Complex Spine through the Universal Merchant Bank number 000020100141612, North Ridge branch.

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Officially opened in 2012, FOCOS Orthopaedic Hospital currently has a capacity of 50 beds, which can be expanded in future.

The hospital, described as one of very few state-of-the-art, full service specialty hospitals in all of Africa, is equipped with two operating theatres, an outpatient clinic, laboratory, physiotherapy centre, radiology centre and patient wards.

It has facilities such as a state-of-the-art Surgical Theatre, Radiology, Laboratory, Pharmacy and Physiotherapy departments

Founder and CEO of FOCOS Orthopaedic Hospital, Prof Oheneba Boachie-Adjei said “Orthopaedic surgery which involves operation on the musculoskeletal system, costs about $10,000 in Ghana compared to about $100,000 and though health insurance did not cover Orthopaedic healthcare delivery it was his wish that the government would pay at least 10% for Ghanaians in future.”

He was worried about the lack of advocacy for Orthopaedic healthcare in Ghana considering it being the fourth cause of death and disability in the world according to the WHO.

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The 50-bed Specialist hospital was granted full accreditation by the Board of the GCPS upon satisfactory inspection of its facilities and current standards of operation.

As part of the accreditation, the Board granted a full accreditation for five (5) years for Fellowship Rotation in Intensive Care, Anaesthesia for Orthopaedic Surgery and Pain and Regional Anaesthesia up to a maximum of four (4) Senior Residents per year beginning the 2016/2017 Academic year.

Commenting on the accreditation was Chief of Anaesthesia, Dr. Irene Adorkor Wulff who said, “We are committed to capacity building in the specialty of anaesthesia to improve the perioperative care of patients requiring surgery in this country and indeed on the continent. Training in the different subspecialties is fundamental for the management of complex cases requiring critical care in the perioperative period.”

In addition, the Board granted FOCOS Orthopaedic Hospital, a three –year partial accreditation to train Residents undergoing their six-month District Rotation in Orthopaedic Surgery. Residents will benefit from quality training under the tutelage of internationally acclaimed Orthopaedic health experts. This was received with great enthusiasm by the Associate Medical Director, Dr. Joseph Ogyaadu who led the team. FOCOS stands to aid in professional development of orthopedists in the country, recognizing the dismal rating of one orthopedic specialist to a million citizens in the country.

FOCOS Hospital, located at Pantang, is a subsidiary of the Foundation of Orthopaedics and Complex Spine (FOCOS), a non-profit organization established in 1998 by Dr. Oheneba Boachie-Adjei and as an auxiliary of the foundation. The hospital is equipped with ultra-modern facilities and has been adjudged as one of the best Orthopaedic Hospitals in Africa, a center of Excellence, by several organizations.

With some of the best medical practitioners in the world, the hospital specializes in Clubfoot, Complex Spine Deformities, Joint Replacement, Research & Education as well as other degenerative spine illnesses.

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