At dawn in Kumasi's crowded Sawaba neighbourhood, 67-year-old Kofi Owusu Mensah begins his day facing a painful and familiar dilemma: buy food for his family or insulin for himself.

When someone is on life support, you cannot tell if they are dead or alive. We just want the doctor to tell us the truth.

Cardiologists at MTRH are celebrating the successful completion of a ground-breaking procedure designed to re-open narrowed blood vessels in patients suffering from heart disease.