The Paediatric Surgery Depart­ment took care of newborn babies up to 13 years. - Afua Adwo Jectey Hesse

The challenges in the department included the clinical condition the patient was identified with, you could diagnose the condition and prescribe medication for the patient, but the parents could not purchase the medicine, and having completed a nice job, the post-operative man­agement of the case could be problematic because the parents could not provide the needed items.

I urged Ghanaians to de­sist from telling lies and do what they would like to do if nobody was watching them.

However, the icy hands of death took away her father, in her first year at the Medical School in 1971. This was a catastrophic and traumatic experience.