{
  "id": 19828043,
  "title": "Dead Men Can Teach: Why Ghana’s Medical Schools are running out of bodies",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/dead-men-can-teach-why-ghanas-medical-schools-are-running-out-of",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-13T15:50:49.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MyJoyOnline Ghana",
    "slug": "myjoyonline-ghana",
    "url": "https://www.myjoyonline.com/dead-men-can-teach-why-ghanas-medical-schools-are-running-out-of-bodies/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Ghana's medical schools are grappling with a critical shortage of cadavers, which are essential for teaching anatomy and training future physicians. This shortage stems from the depletion of unclaimed bodies in mortuaries, which are overwhelmed and often unable to provide suitable specimens for medical research and education. As a result, medical schools are forced to rely on limited resources such as models, digital simulations, and textbooks, which cannot adequately replace the invaluable lessons learned from actual human cadavers. The lack of sufficient cadavers hampers the ability of medical students to gain hands-on experience, understand anatomical variations, and develop essential surgical skills, ultimately impacting the quality of healthcare training and potentially the future of Ghanaian medical education.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}