{"id":12626,"date":"2021-12-21T12:48:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T12:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/uncategorized\/ghana-dr-danso-grabs-15-awards-at-ucc-graduation-ceremony"},"modified":"2021-12-21T13:23:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T13:23:33","slug":"ghana-dr-danso-grabs-15-awards-at-ucc-graduation-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/ghana-dr-danso-grabs-15-awards-at-ucc-graduation-ceremony","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Dr Danso Grabs 15 Awards At UCC Graduation Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Ghana. <\/strong><\/span>A first degree graduating student of the University of Cape Coast captured all the attention when he won 15 out of 21 awards at the 54th graduation ceremony at the weekend.<\/p>\n

Edward Akosah Danso, who was trained at the School of Medical Sciences as a Medical Doctor, now holds the record as the first student to have won such awards in the history of the university.<\/p>\n

Among the others are best student in Anatomy, Biochemistry, Physiology, Community Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Psychiatry and Surgery.<\/p>\n

The rest include best graduating student in psychological medicine and mental health, male student, clinical student, pre-clinical student, MB, ChB and Final Part II and overall best male studentIn a brief speech, Master Danso expressed gratitude to his mother, Commissioner of Police (COP), Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, who is currently the Director-General of the Police Intelligence and Professional Standards (PIPS) Bureau of the Ghana Police Service.<\/p>\n

“I am extremely thankful to my best friend, my confidant and my role model who has single handedly taken care of me for as long as I can remember.<\/p>\n

She deserves to be proud for all she has done for me,” he added.<\/p>\n

On his ambitions for the future, he said he wants to eventually end up in academia as a Professor of Surgery.<\/p>\n

“I am considering specialising in transplant surgery, a sub-specialty of general surgery and establishing a transplant centre to serve the country and continental sub-region,” Mr Danso stated.<\/p>\n

He is a past pupil of Morning Star School in Accra where he excelled in the Basic Education Certificate Examination and proceeded to the Prempeh College in Kumasi.<\/p>\n

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