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In order to make Medical Education accessible to all, Family Health University College has officially launched Family Health Medical School Endowment Fund; the Fund would cater for the needy but brilliant Ghanaian students, who have the passion for becoming medical doctors in future, but cannot afford the cost.

The theme for the launch is "Empowering the Needy for 21st Century Medical Education".

Medical education is expensive, such that, it can only be afforded by the few rich in the society, whilst a great number of persons with the passion for the profession, are unable to access it due to financial constraints.

The main objective of the Fund is to provide financial support to needy, but brilliant students who have the desire to be trained as Medical Doctors.

In a welcome address, the Founder and President of Family Health University College, Prof. Yao Kwawukume commended past students of the institution who are doing well in serving in cities and rural areas across the country.

He said, reports received so far point to the fact that, people in the cities and rural areas where Family Health Medical School Doctors are working, appreciate their contributions a lot.

Prof. Kwawukume further expressed his appreciation to the Governing Council and Board of Trustees, for the effort made in establishing the Endowment Fund to ensure that the less privileged in society are not left behind, as far as medical education are concerned.

He however, appealed to the general public to contribute towards the Fund in order to give hope to the needy but brilliant students.

In an interview, the Chairman, Board of Trustees, Naa (Dr.) Alhassan Andani, disclosed that, for a unique institution like Family Health University College, of which vision is “to be a prime center for the education and training of health professionals, for the advancement of human health”, it is important that an Endowment Fund is established to provide scholarship to the needy but brilliant students, towards the realization of their dreams of becoming medical doctors.

He added that, besides the provision of scholarship to needy but brilliant students, part of the Fund would be used to organize research, and lecture series, and also to acquire teaching and learning aids to ensure that institution provides the best of medical education within the sub-Saharan region and beyond.