MedSight - Abaya Kofi Mensah

Name: Abaya Kofi Mensah

Birth Place: Akatsi, Ghana

Academic Qualification: Pharm D (Doctor of Pharmacy), Admission Batch: 2017

College: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Languages you speak/write: French, English, Ewe

MedBound handle: @Kofi

1. What do you do?

   I am a final year Doctor of Pharmacy student with a passion for bridging the gap in medication production in Africa.

2. What’s the best part of your profession? What made you choose this profession?

   I love to see patients recovering successfully from their predicaments.

3. Do you like reading? What was the last thing you read?

   Yes, How To Influence People By John C. Maxwell

4. What is your favorite dish?

   Banku with Okro Soup

5. How would your friend describe you?

   Principled Person

6. Who would you like to travel with?

   With Friend(s)

7. What is your least favorite subject?

   Sign language

8. What triggers you?

   Anything that breeds evil or oppresses less privileged people.

9. Describe yourself using 3 words

   Change driven leader

10. What’s something you wish to change about the world?

    Equitable healthcare policy implementation without compromising quality.

11. What aspect of your personality would you change if you could?

    My expectation of people to do the right thing. The disappointment when they fail to do the right thing takes the best part of me.

12. If your journey was a movie, what would it be called?

    From Grass To Grace, Creating A Better World

13. Which pill would you take? Red or blue Pill?

    Red Pill: You can go to the past with all of your present knowledge.

    Blue Pill: You will skip 20 years of your life with billions of dollars in your bank account

    Red pill

14. What are you passionate about?

    I am passionate about restoring justice and equity in Africa.

15. Best/memorable moment?

    Receiving Mastercard Foundation Scholarship Award

16. What do you love to do in your leisure time?

    Reading medical journals and current trends in healthcare delivery.

17. What do you hate the most?

    Dishonesty

18. How do you keep yourself calm before an exam or any event?

    I spend time preparing adequately for the event.

19. If given a choice, what alternate career would you have opted for?

    Computer scientist

20. What is your dream travel destination?

    Eiffel Tower

21. Where would you like to work in the future?

    In my private pharmaceutical company, manufacturing pharmaceutical products for better healthcare delivery in Africa.

22. Finally, a Quote you relate to.

    Silence in the Face of Evil Is Itself Evil - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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