Kuku bags gold medal award for exceptional service in healthcare delivery

The Nigerian Sonny Kuku a co-founder of the EKO Hospitals was awarded the Gold medal for his exceptional services to the College and Medical healthcare in the West African Sub Region.

He was awarded the highest award of the college at the recently concluded 42nd Annual congress of the West African college of Physicians held at the Bintumani conference centers, Aberdeen in Sierra Leone, Freetown.

The annual general congress a four days meeting held under the theme “ Defining the role of the laboratory in the era of emerging and re-emerging diseases in the sub region and sub themes ” Anti – Microbial infection and Super infection and ” Integrative Medicine development in West Africa”.

Kuku who was a past president and the current vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of the College has won the highest award of medical colleges around the world including the distinguished Fellowship of the National Post graduate Medical College of Nigeria and the Master of American College of Physicians, its first African awardee.

Two other leading physicians including a sierra Leonean, Oluwumi Coker also received gold awards.

However, Research papers were delivered at the AGM. Among these were research papers on Ebola, HIV and Aids, Malaria and other endemic topics in West Africa. On display at the venue of the meeting were vaccines for emergency purposes.

One of the recommendations at the West African College of Physicians annual general meeting is the need for Government to strengthen the health system in the sub region.

The West African College of physicians is the fraternity that sets the standard on how Medicine is practiced and the lead Agency for the training of specialists in the sub- region.

ANTHONIA OBOKOH