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Sierra Leone: College of Medicine Celebrates 20th Anniversary
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Concord Times (Freetown)
28 March 2008
Posted to the web 28 March 2008
Bhoyy Jalloh
Freetown
The College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences (COMAHS) will be celebrating its 20 year of existence during a lengthy celebration period starting from April 4 to 13, 2008.
This was yesterday revealed to journalists in Freetown by Chairman of the Planning Committee, Dr. A.F.
Joe-Jackson.
COMAHS was founded on April 12, 1988 and has churned out hundreds of graduates in various disciplines of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences. Products of the College have successfully performed to loud acclaim not only locally but all over the world in places like the United States and the United Kingdom.
According to Dr. Joe-Jackson, the celebrations will start with a Students Sports Meet on Friday 4 and Saturday 5, April this year. This will be followed by sensitisation visits of students of COMAHS to selected secondary schools in in the country among them the Government Secondary School (Bo), the Prince of Wales School and the Annie Walsh Memorial School.
Students will be raising awareness amongst school going children around the country on the existence of the college and the values it has for the society.
On April 10, 2008 it will hold an inter-hall debate where students will debate the values and vices of three selected topics of medical significance.
On Friday April 11, Muslim prayers will be said for the College by the Muslim Jamaat of Kossoh Town.
On Saturday April 12, there will be a grand sponsored walk which will take the route from the Connaught Hospital to the UpGun Roundabout in the east of Freetown and buses will later transport pedestrians onto the Kossoh Town Campus where a flag raising ceremony will be held.
On Sunday April 13, there will be a Christian thanksgiving service, also to be held at Kossoh Town.
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In addition to this itinerary stated above, a special planning committee is also arranging a special launching of an Endowment Fund for COMAHS which will be held at a date to be announced shortly.
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