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Benjamin Dabo Sarkodie, is a doctor and the only interventional radiologist in the country.

Dr Sarkodie is a fellow of the West African College of Surgeons has been a doctor for 10 years now and studied to be an interventional radiologist in Singapore.

He then decided to come to Ghana to help patients who are having fibroids, blocked falopian tubes, and other conditions. He works at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital and he's also a lecturer at the University of Ghana Medical School.

Explaining the nature of his work, he said conditions that previously required surgery, can now be done non-surgically through interventional radiology.

"It is a proceedure that is less traumatising....but unfortunately I am the only one; unfortunately because I wish that by now we would have had more interventional radiologist...I have started training people and so I am sure in the next few years, we will have more people in that field..." he told Kwami Sefa Kayi in an interview on PEACE FM morning show 'Kokrokoo'.

But how does Dr Sarkodie go about his duties and who at all is an interventional radiologist? Click the audio to listen