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.
