Alhassan Andani taking the oath of office
Pishigu Lana Alhassan Andani and Rev. (Dr.) Joyce Rosalind Aryee have been sworn in as members of the Family Health Medical School Endowment Fund Board of Trustees.
The Endowment Fund aims at supporting brilliant but needy Ghanaian students desiring to be trained as medical doctors at Family Health Medical School (FHMS).
In an interview, Chairman of Family Health Medical School Endowment Fund Board of Trustees, Naa Alhassan Andani, said, he would work with the other members as a team to ensure that, they go out with the dreams of Family Health Medical School to well-meaning Ghanaian philanthropists in the country and also across the world, to raise funding to support the objective of the Fund.
Naa Alhassan Andani noted that it has become difficult for those in the rural areas who are brilliant but needy to enroll in medical school, adding that “medical education is not for the rich but rather individuals with the call and passion to save lives and serve the needs of the sick and the vulnerable in the society.”
According to Naa Andani, good doctors can be trained at Family Health Medical School to stay in the country to support the government’s objective of providing quality healthcare to the people.
On her part, Rev. Dr. Joyce Aryee said the importance of the Endowment Fund to the needy but brilliant students was for people who were capable of becoming doctors, nurses and surgeons, but did not have the means to do so.
The Endowment Fund Board of Trustees comprises Naa (Dr.) Alhassan Andani, Chairman (former CEO/Executive Director, Stanbic Bank); Dr. Peter Yeboah, Member (Executive Director, CHAG); Rear Admiral Geoffrey Biekro (rtd), Member (former Chief of Naval Staff); Mrs. Merene Benyah, Member (Legal Practitioner/Consultant).
Others are Rev. (Dr.) Joyce Aryee, Member (Executive Director, Salt & Light Ministries); and Kwaku Glymin, Member (Retired Public Servant). Ms. Adjoa Adubea Koram (Assistant Registrar, FHMS) is the Secretary to the Board of Trustees.