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The Sickle Cell Anaemia disease is endemic to the Negroid Race. About 10% of Ghana's population of 20 million people suffer from this excruciating disease.
The Centre for Clinical Genetics was set up in 1975 as a research, education, and service unit at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. Since its foundation, the centre's main function has been to provide services to outpatients. It has thus registered about 22,000 patients to date. The centre sees adults while patients aged 12 years and below attend the pediatric clinic at the children's block of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.
The clinic has an average daily attendance of 75 patients while 10 to 15 require detention at the day room. Patients requiring admission at the end of the day are sent through the surgical medical emergency unit to the medical wards.
The centre is currently in a run down state. Most of the equipment installed in 1975 is broken down and has never been replaced.
This project would provide some equipment to enable the centre to extend its range of tests to include new-born screening. The budget includes $18,000 for a Haematology Auto counter, $18,000 for a Chemistry Autoanalyser, $15,000 for chemicals and other materials, and $10,000 for general laboratory equipment. | 
