Ghana Medical Students Association-China elects members

The Ghana Medical Students Association-China (GMSAC) recently held elections in China to choose

new executives for the 2011/2012 academic year.

The association after going through the filing of nominations, vetting of candidates, manifesto reading

and voting, elected Mr. Openi-Goka Francis Mawufemor, a student of Hebei North University as its

President to succeed Mr Charles Dwamena who served the association as its President from 2008 to 2011.

The rest of the executives are Miss Sedinam Adamaley and Mr Awae Joseph Kennedy, both of Wenzhou

Medical College as Vice President and General Secretary respectively; Mr Aduri Imoro Yakubu and Miss

Rahinatu Abdul Rahman, both of the Liaoning Medical University as Co-ordinating Secretary and

Financial Secretary respectively.

In his acceptance speech, Openi-Goka, thank the forebears and past executives for their hardwork and

determination over the years, asked members for their unrelenting support and promised to work strictly

by the constitution of the association.

He further pledged among other things, to establish a Members Welfare Pool system to respond to

students' emergency needs in times of financial troubles either with school authorities or immigration

issues. He further intends to form a Board of Trustees to take an oversight responsibility over the

association's matters.

In a related development, GMSAC has extended a hand of felicitations and congratulations to the Ghana

Medical Association (GMA) for their successful 53rd Annual General Conference recently held in

Kumasi, at which they elected new National Officers to run the affairs of the Association for the next two

years.

In a message signed by its president, the association, while congratulating the GMA, challenged the

leadership to make as a matter of priority, efforts at bringing Ghanaian doctors who are domiciled outside

the country back home to help in the health delivery system of Ghana, towards building a wealthy nation

with a healthy people. It further asked the leadership to do everything possible within its means to retain

the already serving doctors in the country, by negotiating relentlessly, with government and all

stakeholders in the health sector for better remuneration and working conditions for these doctors and

allied health professionals.

Attached is a full text of the congratulatory message to the Ghana Medical Association.

Dated: 20

th

November, 2011.