I intimat­ed that there were occasions I had to use my money in support of needy children on admission in the hospital, and this situation had occasi… - Afua Adwo Jectey Hesse

It was an arduous task working continuously as a paediatric surgeon with no time to rest. Later, she had to recruit more doctors and nurses to assist her in the department and ensured that the staff were exposed to some of the best practices outside the country.

My family decid­ed to manage the academic part of the university while other stakeholders provide the financial part. That was the vision to get stakehold­ers who would provide the needed funds for this laudable project, hence the coming into being of the Accra Col­lege of Medicine.

The Paediatric Surgery Depart­ment took care of newborn babies up to 13 years.