WOUND CARE – Ghana

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Date

February 8th, 2007

Description

A color photograph of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter trying to comfort 6-year-old Ruhama Issah, as a Carter Center technical assistant dresses her extremely painful Guinea worm wound at Savelugu Hospital in Ghana.

Source

The Carter Center Office of Public Information, Health Programs
453 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta, GA 30307
www.cartercenter.org

Citation

“WOUND CARE – Ghana,” The Global Health Chronicles, accessed May 10, 2025, https://globalhealthchronicles.org/items/show/4920.