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About Dr. Barbara Entsuah
Dr. Barbara Naa Chicher Entsuah is a Physician specializing in Family Medicine. She obtained her medical degree at the University of Ghana Medical School in Ghana, West Africa and she did her Family Medicine Residency in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has practiced medicine in Ghana, Liberia, Canada and the United States for over 30 years. She presently lives in Florida, where she has practiced medicine in the city of Clermont for over 14 years.
She loves Women’s Health and Preventative Medicine and always encourages her patients to incorporate life style changes in their health management. She is the Vice President of Gateway of Hope, Inc. a non-profit organization she co-founded with her husband to serve the people of Florida, Ghana and beyond. Since 2000, she and her husband Jojo have been leading mission teams to Ghana to do free medical clinics, address women’s health issues and present education empowerment, and sexual education to young people.
Other areas include health education, work among women groups and churches, and the establishment of an elementary school in Boate Village in the Eastern Region of Ghana. In Florida, she has organized health fairs and assisted other organizations reach out to the community. She is active in her local church – FaithPoint Church and is involved with the Prayer, Missions and Hospitality Ministries. She is married with three adult children, Akua, Afua and Ebo.

A Woman's Guide to Her Body and Her Total Health is Out Now!
A Woman's Guide to Her Body and Her Total Health has been written by Dr. Barbara Entsuah after practicing medicine for over 30 years. It is to empower women to know about their bodies, what diseases affect it and how they can both prevent these or be knowledgeable about them. It teaches, among other things, how to treat minor illnesses like common cold, allergies etc at home for symptom relief and the need to see a health professional if there is no improvement thereafter. It also encourages women to be involved in their own health by knowing about their medical conditions or diseases so that visits to health providers can be meaningful as well as useful. Both conventional medicines and complementary/Alternative medicines are addressed and awareness of medications and what indications they are being used for and side effects of different medicines are also addressed.
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Gateway of Hope's (GOHInc) Work on Women's Health
Breast and cervical cancer screening: In the last ten years, Gateway of Hope, Inc (GOHInc) NGO founded by Jojo and Barbara Entsuah has been engaged in a number of Health outreaches during its annual mission outreach to Ghana, which have included, Free Out Patient Medical Clinics, Women’s Heath Seminars, and in particular Cervical and Breast Cancer Screening and Prevention presentations. In the process of researching for her latest book on Women’s Health, Dr Barbara found that most women in middle and low income countries did not have the luxury of in office Cervical cancer screening or mammograms for breast cancer screening. So during her trips to Ghana she embarked on Helping other screening methods to women in the community.
1. Cervical Cancer Screening Gateway of Hope, Inc has collaborated with a number of different Health Entities in providing Cervical Cancer Screening and Pre-Cancer treatment as indicated below to various communities in different parts of the country .
a. The Cervical Cancer Prevention Training Center (CCPTC) of Battor Catholic Hospital in Battor, Volta Region, headed by Dr. Kofi Effah and our organization. The collaboration has worked in the following areas – Ashongman Community in Accra, Greater Accra Region hosted by the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Boateh Community in the Eastern Region, Adah community in Greater Accra Region sponsored by Every Home for Christ Ministries of Ada. The Battor hospital has been foremost in the training of medical personnel for effective screening practices.’
b. With the Reproductive Health Department of Our Lady of Grace Hospital in Breman Asikuma - Health Clinics were held at Broferyedur Suburb, of Cape Coast in the Central Region and at the Redemption Baptist church which hosted the screenings.
c. With Independent Clinicians/Nurses - The Clinics were held in mainly Out-Patient settings with the cancer screenings run along side medical clinics attended by a team of local and US based medical personnel (Doctors, Final Year Medical School Students, Pharmacists, Physician Assistants, Nurses and auxiliary participants), under the direction of Dr. Barbara Entsuah.
d. In 2018, we also screened women for breast and cervical cancer at an outreach in Madina outside Accra, sponsored by the local Methodist church.
On the average, about 250 patients were attended to during the general Health clinics in each location, and an average of 50-100 women received the Cervical Cancer Screening in each location. Cervical Cancer Screening for women has become a significant element of Gateway of Hope Inc. efforts at cancer preventative health measures to the Ghanaian populace. Finally, Gateway of Hope, Inc has been instrumental in the distribution of the hand-held, mobile EVA Colposcope (developed by MobileODT) in Ghana. GOHInc first introduced the Colposcope to the Country in 2017. This device makes it easier to take cervical cancer screening into the communities where women live and work.
2. Breast Cancer Screening This has been through the teaching of Self Breast examination and Clinical Examination by a health worker. We also use the Breast-i device for enhanced examination. It was developed and marketed by High Innovation Center (HIC). The examinations were carried out concurrently with the Cervical Cancer Screening at the various listed locations.
Barbara Entsuah, MD. (Vice President- Gateway of Hope, Inc.)