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And the blind shall see!

my patients requesting desperately to go blind unlike the
countless times I heard my patients in the general ward
pleading with death to come quickly to end their misery.
This should tell you how precious sight is; hence, it saddens
Dr. Wendoline Asiedu-Twum my heart whenever I have to break the news to a patient
that their eye condition is beyond salvage.
Ophthalmic Surgeon (Oculoplastics)
When I am not consulting or performing surgeries, I love
Never judge a book by its cover! to curl up on a sofa to read a good crime or an uplifting
I hope my ophthalmology lecturer in medical Christian novel. I also love sight-seeing and try to visit some
school does not have a fit if he ever meets me tourist sites whenever I find myself in any country; from
sitting behind a slit lamp ready to examine his Victoria Falls, the Masai Mara Game Reserve, the genocide
eyes. Simple reason; I guess I was the only one memorial grounds (Rwanda) to Kintampo Falls just to
who confidently and repeatedly described the mention a few.
iris (brown part of the eye) of a black person as
being blue during an ophthalmology exam I am also an active member of the Intercessory Department
when even my own iris is brown! of the Charismatic Evangelistic Ministry as well as a member
of the Medical Outreach team. A good time out shopping
with my girlfriend is definitely the icing on the cake for my
social life.
Paediatrics was my dream career but by some divine twists I had a brief stint at Sight for Africa, a non-governmental I am the youngest of a family of six and I am married to a
and turns, I ended up pursuing a career in Ophthalmology. organization, and then in 2012 I started practicing as an Dental Technologist with two amazing kids.
In 2008, a three year scholarship awarded by the Lions Club ophthalmic surgeon at Emmanuel Eye Centre, East Legon My personal belief is to always have faith in God and in
of South Bavaria saw my enrolment in the Department of where I have been till date. In 2015, divine favour knocked one’s self. Faith is like a lightning bolt, it happens suddenly
Ophthalmology at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, which on my door once more and I was awarded a Commonwealth in the blink of an eye striking evil with a force that’s out of
is a World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Training Eye Health Consortium scholarship to pursue a short term the ordinary!
Centre and one of the finest training centres in ophthalmic fellowship in Oculoplastics at the Ispahani Islamia Eye
surgery in Africa. Institute in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
By the end of my three year sojourn in Kenya, I had the As an ophthalmologist with a special interest in oculoplastics,
opportunity through surgical outreaches (which we called my duty does not end in the consulting room. I follow suit
safari) to visit various counties within the country and go in the theatre to perform both intraocular and extraocular
beyond its borders to places like Zambia, Tanzania and surgeries as well as reconstructive procedures.
Ethiopia. These are periods I still relish when I look back
to my residency days. I came back to Ghana in 2011 armed My joy knows no bounds on seeing my patient who hitherto
with two certificates: one as an ophthalmologist and of was blind now walking unaided after a successful eye surgery.
course my first baby whom I fondly refer to as my second
certificate. Throughout my years of practice first as a general practitioner
and then an ophthalmic surgeon, I have never heard any of

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