KNUST Optometry 9th White Coat Ceremony advocates compassionate, visionary optometry care

The ninth (9th) White Coat ceremony of the Department of Optometry and Visual Sciences at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology focused discussions on the need to train compassionate, innovative, and visionary eye care professionals capable of expanding access to quality medical optometry care in Ghana and across Africa.

The ceremony also celebrated the formal induction of the Class of 2028 into clinical training as they donned their white coats and pledged to uphold the values of integrity, excellence, and compassionate service."Your greatest legacy will be the lives that see more clearly because they met a doctor whose knowledge was matched by humility, whose excellence was guided by integrity, whose leadership was grounded in service, and whose compassion reflected the very heart of humanity,” he noted.