THE first Medical Superintendent of the Tamale West Hospital, Dr Sam Obeng-Agyei, is dead. He was 53. He died on December 6, 2009 at his home in Konongo Odumase in the Ashanti Region after he had returned from a funeral in Kumasi .
He served in various capacities at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital from 1988 to 1992, Tamale Teaching Hospital from 1992 to 1998 and the Tamale West Hospital from 1998 until his death.
He served the Northern Region in various capacities in the medical field for 19 years, and was instrumental in facilitating the upgrading of the Tamale West Hospital from a polyclinic status to a district hospital and finally to its current status.
Under his administration, the West Hospital expanded its facilities, enabling it to ease pressure on the Tamale Teaching and Central hospitals in the metropolis.
The late Dr Obeng-Agyei read medicine at the Kharkov Medical Institution in the Ukraine from 1981 to 1987. He also read a Master of Science programme in Tropical Paediatrics at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine from 2005 to 2006.
His colleagues, friends and patients described him as a “nice man” who had a cordial relationship with people he came across while performing his duties.
He is survived by a wife and six children.
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