Ghanaian becomes 1st African to be a Diplomate of the American Profesional Wound Care Association

Richard Owusu Nyarko, a registered/Licensed Senior Health Care Practitioner in Ghana and a trainee in Medicine and Surgery has become the first Ghanaian to pass all requirements to be a fellow of the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists (ACCWS).

He has also become the first African to be inducted as a diplomate member of the American Professional Wound Care Association (APWCA) since the establishment of these two professional and academic institutions in the United States of America.

These institutions are accredited clinical institutions dedicated to professional, academic, and research practice of caring, curing, and providing clinical interventions to worldwide hospitals and communities on wounds and injuries that end up damaging tissues, cells, and nerves of the human system like gas gangrenes, frontiers gangrene, septic wound, decubitus ulcers, chronic foot, and hand ulcers, cancer ulcers, and wounds, general road traffic accidents, factory injuries, etc.