New treatments for rare diseases in Ghana still inaccessible

There are some diseases around the world that are so rare; only a few thousand people suffer from them. That makes funding research difficult. New medical innovations have led to new treatments. But as Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman reported from Ghana, many living with rare diseases around the world still struggle to access them.

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