REFLECTION SERIES

I have read the report of Alphonso;  a final year MD student from Yale School of Medicine who did a 4 week clinical rotation at the department Obstetrics and Gynecology, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital on  Ghanaweb titled -   What I learned during my rotation in Ghana - Foreign medical student ( https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/What-I-learned-during-my-rotation-in-Ghana-Foreign-medical-student-627687 ) .  This report has been published widely in both local and international media houses as well as social media.  As a Ghanaian health worker, I agree and disagree to parts to her report.  I see some of her description of Ghana and her citizens as derogatory and insulting. Even though Ghana is a developing country, these descriptions do not in anyway portray the exact picture of Ghana. They are very unfortunate and are in bad taste.  "The first thing that I noticed when I stepped off of the plane was intense heat. We landed during a...

The issue of death continues to be a mystery to many. Many people throughout world history have tried to explain this mystery but none has been able to answer all the questions associated with it. Science has not been able to explain, neither has philosophy been able to tell exactly what happens to a person when he dies.  The only book that contains all the answers related to death is the  Holy Bible.  The purpose of this message is to bring our minds back to the word of God and to reiterate the clear position of the Bible concerning the state of the dead. In Ghana and like other countries, the issue of death becomes a topic for discussion anytime a popular person dies. In such situations, we often hear lay people and even prominent Pastors make statements about the dead which are not Biblical. These statements go contrary to the explicit position of the Bible (The inspired word of God). The death of Ebony (a Ghanaian dance hall musician) who died in a motor accid...