I thought my first major patient had died until I found her eating Akple for breakfast – Bernhardt Ago Sowa Kuma

For the young doctor who had feared he had lost his very first major patient, finding her alive and eating breakfast the next morning was more than good news.

The patient was taken to the ward, and the exhausted young surgeon could do nothing more than hope.

Fresh from his medical training in the United Kingdom, the young doctor had returned home and was posted to what was then Ho District Hospital in Adidome.