ACHEST Executive Director receives a Honorary Fellowship from RCSI
Prof. Francis Omaswa, the Executive Director of African Centre for Global Health and
Prof. Francis Omaswa, ACHEST ED, Mr. Declan J. Magee, and President of the RCSI and prof.Krikor Erzingatsian during the award event. Social Transformation (ACHEST) was awarded the prestigious Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, RCSI. The fellowship was awarded on 21st April 2016 in Dublin for his extensive and outstanding work on health in Africa and globally.
Prof. Omaswa was the Founding President of the College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa (COSECA). COSECA fosters postgraduate education and training in surgery in ten countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The flamboyant occasion of the conferring of the Honorary Fellowship was presided over by the President of the RCSI Mr. Declan J. Magee and Prof. Omaswa was a keynote speaker as well.