The 2012-year group of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) School of Medicine and Dentistry (SMD) has donated air conditioners and television sets to its alma mater.

The donation is part of the year group’s renovation of some University Lecture Halls. The medical doctors, who celebrated their tenth graduation anniversary, are now practicing in various hospitals throughout Ghana and the Diaspora.

The leader of the delegation, Dr. Charles Martyn-Dickens, during the presentation, said, “this is our alma mater. We’ve been here for six years and are delighted to be back. Today, we return not only as medical students who left 10 years ago but also as members of a working-class with the capacity to make a difference. It was a moment for us to give back to our school what we had taken”.

The 2012 batch of 149 medical doctors participated in a three-day capacity-building program that included aerobics and mentorship sessions with the university’s current medical students.

Some members of the year group stated that the activities were motivated by a desire to give back to their school as a reward for the skills they had gained while at university.

Prof. Joslin Dogbe, Chairman of School of Medicine and Dentistry Alumni committee, expressed heartfelt gratitude to the team and encouraged other alumni to follow in their footsteps.

He charged the university’s former students with collaborating to make the medical school the best in the country.

“It’s always a great joy to see your children grow up and reach positions where they are able to make a difference and inspire others. Today, they came back as elderly child who would carry his/her siblings along. We implore other year groups to replicate this feat more frequently. The generation of today and that of the future needs contemporary opportunities to solve problems. Let us work together to make the medical school the premier in the country,” he stated.

George Kwabena Bonsu Jnr, President of the Junior Common Room, also expressed his appreciation for the group’s initiatives.

“We have been motivated by their presence. Today was a fine opportunity to learn from medical practitioners who are also old students of this great institution. We have added to our capacity and we hope to see this activity more often from other old students,” the President said.