Susan Gyankorama De-Graft Johnson

Susan Gyankorama De-Graft Johnson (died 1985) was the first woman to qualify as a physician in colonial Ghana.[1][2] Eventually she became medical officer in charge at Kumasi Hospital, and later she assumed charge of the Princess Louise Hospital for Women.[1] She was made an Honorary Doctor of Science by the University of Ghana for her work on malnutrition in children, and received the Royal Cross from Pope John Paul II when he visited Ghana in 1980.[3] She helped to establish the Women's Society for Public Affairs and was a founder of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.

References

  1. 1 2 Adell Patton (1996). Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa. University Press of Florida. pp. 29–. ISBN 978-0-8130-1432-6.
  2. ↑ Richard Rathbone (1993). Murder and Politics in Colonial Ghana. Yale University Press. pp. 40–. ISBN 978-0-300-05504-7.
  3. ↑ Cecilia J. Dumor (August 2002). Nelson Thornes West African Readers Junior Readers 3. Nelson Thornes. pp. 124–. ISBN 978-0-7487-7034-2.
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