{"id":1265008,"date":"2022-12-14T11:40:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T11:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/14\/korea-prime-minister-awards-ghana-health-service-boss\/"},"modified":"2022-12-14T11:40:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T11:40:37","slug":"korea-prime-minister-awards-ghana-health-service-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/14\/korea-prime-minister-awards-ghana-health-service-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Korea Prime Minister awards Ghana Health Service Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye has received the Korean Prime Minister\u2019s citation.<\/p>\n<p>The citation is in recognition of and appreciation for his outstanding contributions to the National and Social Development of the Republic of Korea through the International Development Cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>It was handed to him on 25th November 2022, by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea, Han Duck-soo in Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Presenting the citation, the Prime Minister said it is to directly identify and reward professionals who play integral roles in the implementation of development projects that brings about social change.<\/p>\n<p>This recognition comes on the back of Dr Kumah\u2019s excellent management of Ghana\u2019s Covid-19 response programme. As the GHS boss, he led the effective coordination of Ghana\u2019s response programme that eventually curtailed the importation of the virus and stopped its spread.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-901305 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/KM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>His scientifically grounded leadership in shaping an effective response to the Covid-19 pandemic won him admiration from colleague health professionals who attributed Ghana\u2019s success in defeating the virus in part to his proactiveness as the head of the Health Service.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the citation, Dr Kumah said \u201cI am happy to receive this citation amid the recognition and honour it comes with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He expressed gratitude to the Prime Minister and the people of the Republic of Korea for the recognition and promised to do more to advance the frontiers of social development.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye has received the Korean Prime Minister\u2019s citation. The citation is in recognition of and appreciation for his outstanding contributions to the National and Social Development of the Republic of Korea through the International Development Cooperation. It was handed to him on 25th November 2022, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1265009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}