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US Black Cardiologists granted
audience at the castle
Accra, Dec. 27, Ghanadot/GNA – President John Agyekum Kufuor
on Thursday granted audience to a delegation of the
Association of Black Cardiologists at the Castle, Osu.
The group led by Dr Gerald DeVaughan, was in the country to
share their knowledge and experiences with their Ghanaian
counterparts to help to improve on the quality of health
care in the country.
Based in the United States, this was the Association’s third
visit to Africa and in the case of the West African
Sub-Region, the first.
President Kufuor, who welcomed the initiative, said there
were a lot the Country’s Medical Schools could learn from
the Americans.
He commended the delegation for putting their expertise in
Science and Technology at the service of mankind.
“This is how it should be” he said, adding that, Africans
should never allow the past to hold them back.
Dr DeVaughan said they were in the country to have a better
understanding of the health problems facing the people to
help to set up programmes to bring relief.
The Association was set up in 1974 and has a membership of
more than 600 health professionals.
It has the tradition of holding meetings in different
developing countries as a means of furthering health
education and establishing links for exchanges and sharing
of health knowledge.
Ghana was selected for this year’s meeting.
GNA
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