Former nation Director of IPAS Ghana, Dr Koma Jehu-Appiah, has congratulated Ambassador Dr Eunice Brookman-Amissah on her appointment by President John Dramani Mahama to the Council of State.
“We totally belief in your capabilities to ship,” says Dr Jehu-Appiah in a press release issued in Accra yesterday copied the Ghanaian Instances.
Ambassador Dr Brookman-Amissah is a doctor and an advocate who has devoted most of her career to enhancing girls’s reproductive well being and rights globally and particularly in Africa.
It stated she is a real pioneer in her subject, having labored tirelessly to assist scale back maternal mortality from unsafe abortions and improve entry to protected authorized abortion companies throughout the continent.
In a 1998 recognition, the Royal School of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of the UK acknowledged that she had pioneered in Africa what has come to be often called Community Gynaecology.
Moreover, Dr Brookman-Amissah has had a distinguished profession, serving as Ghana’s Minister of Well being after which Ambassador to the Kingdom of Netherlands.
She was appointed Vice-President for Africa by IPAS and later particular advisor the World President of IPAS.
“Her efforts have led to vital developments in reproductive well being and rights in Africa. She has helped reform abortion legal guidelines in a number of nations, together with Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Benin, Rwanda, Eswatini, and Kenya, and improved entry to protected services in Ghana and Zambia, amongst others.
Her work has additionally contributed to a 40 per cent decline in deaths from unsafe abortion in Sub-Saharan Africa since 2000,” it acknowledged.
Dr Brookman-Amissah’s dedication and perseverance have earned her quite a few recognition and awards, together with the distinguished *Proper Livelihood Honourary Award in 2023. Also referred to as the Alternate Nobel Prize, this award recognises her trailblasing work in advancing girls’s reproductive rights and enhancing entry to protected abortion companies in Africa.
BY TIMES REPORTER
