Richard Ogirma Baidoo is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Surgery, School of Medical Sciences, University of Cape Coast, and a Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon at Cape Coast Teaching Hospital. His clinical work centres on orthopaedic trauma and arthroplasty. He graduated as the best student of his class at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, and became a Fellow of the West African College of Surgeons in 2011, winning the B.O. Onabowale Prize as the best fellowship candidate in orthopaedics.

His research focuses on fracture and injury care in Ghana, including paediatric fractures, childhood injury, the cost of fracture care and the national trauma registry, and he has led the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital site of the registry. He also collaborates on international surgical outcome studies, and coordinated problem based learning at the School from 2018 to 2022.

Qualifications

  • Fellow, West African College of Surgeons (Orthopaedics and Trauma), 2011
  • Member, National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, 2009
  • Member, West African College of Surgeons, 2009
  • MBBS, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria, 2004

Appointments

  • Senior Lecturer, Department of Surgery, University of Cape Coast, 2014 to date
  • Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, 2014 to date
  • Coordinator, Problem Based Learning, School of Medical Sciences, 2018 to 2022
  • Senior Specialist, Orthopaedics and Trauma, St Joseph’s Hospital, Koforidua, 2012 to 2014
  • Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon, Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto, 2012

Research interests

  • Orthopaedic trauma and fracture care
  • Arthroplasty
  • Paediatric fractures and childhood injury
  • Trauma registries and trauma systems in Ghana
  • Access to and cost of fracture care, including traditional bone setting

Selected publications

  1. Baffour Appiah A, Deckert A, Morna MT, Baidoo R, Oppong C, Bukari M, et al. Pediatric road traffic injuries in Ghana: a cross-sectional study of factors associated with injury severity within the Haddon Matrix framework. BMJ Open. 2026;16(8):e115992. DOI
  2. Buunaaim ADB, Amenah MA, Konadu-Yeboah D, Baidoo R, Asare A, Addo WL, et al. Evaluating catastrophic health expenditures among patients with long bone fractures in Ghana’s major teaching hospitals: a hospital-based analysis. BMC Health Services Research. 2025;25(1):82. DOI
  3. Kang MJ, Kwesi Sakyi Ngissah R, Bo-Ib Buunaaim AD, Baidoo R, Odei-Ansong F, Wordui T, et al. The need for hands-on training and supervision for entry-level physicians in a country with low surgical staffing density: a nationwide survey in Ghana. BMC Medical Education. 2023;23(1):904. DOI
  4. Buunaaim ADB, Ansong D, Osei FA, Amuzu EX, Konadu-Yeboah D, Asare A, et al (including Baidoo R). Review of the establishment of trauma network of Ghana (TRANET): one-year review and implementation experience in a lower middle-income country. European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology. 2023;33(3):449-457. DOI
  5. Morna MT, Baffour Appiah A, Akakpo PK, Rahman GA, Derkyi-Kwarteng L, Baidoo RO, et al. Epidemiology of childhood injury-related deaths: review of mortality data at Cape Coast Teaching Hospital. Pan African Medical Journal One Health. 2020;1:7.
  6. Baidoo RO, Odei-Ansong F, Baidoo E. Choices for operative management of fractures in a developing country. Ethiopian Medical Journal. 2020;58(4):311-314. Article
  7. Baidoo RO, Dayie MS, Baidoo EI. Epidemiology of childhood fractures at a Ghanaian teaching hospital. Research and Reviews: Journal of Medical and Health Sciences. 2020;9(1):1-11.
  8. Baidoo RO, Awindaogo JK, Amoabeng J, Baidoo EI, Dayie MS. Peculiarities of locked intramedullary nailing in a deprived setting. International Journal of Orthopaedics Research. 2020;3(2):92-97.
  9. Baffour Appiah A, Baidoo RO, Morna MT. Preference and reasons for people choosing a place of fracture care: a case study in six communities of Assin North District, Ghana. Postgraduate Medical Journal of Ghana. 2020;9(2):106-111.
  10. Baidoo RO, Dayie MS. Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva: a case report. Ghana Medical Journal. 2016;50(4):248-250. DOI

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Contact

Department of Surgery
School of Medical Sciences, University of Cape Coast
Email: richard.baidoo@ucc.edu.gh