Medical Doctor Ewura Adjoa Ahimah Nunoo, has been awarded at the maiden edition of the Global Women Leadership Summit & Honours 2022.

Dr. Ewura Adjoa A. Nunoo received the Medical Media Personality of the Year Award.

Organised by Smart Focus Media, the 2-hour-long event took place at the La Palm Royal Beach Hotel, on Saturday 27 August, 2022, under the theme: ‘The impact of women through corporate and national development’.

Speaking exclusively to Class News’ Prince Benjamin she expressed her excitement, “I’m elated, I am humbled, I feel honoured to receive the award. It’s well appreciated that people have seen what you’re doing and then they think that you deserve an award so it’s a nice achievement I’m elated about it.”  

2017 is when Dr. Ewura Adjoa started her health advocacy on social media, moving consultation and education from the hospital office and making it readily available to the public on their phones, radio and television.

She revealed the inspiration behind this.

“I wanted to reach more people and you know that usually radio and television, someone will tune in and hear you or watch you, and with social media, people are always looking at your status, people come on your Instagram, Facebook and all that and since most of the things on there were not about health education or anything, I wanted at that time, to reach out to more people and let them know about their health, let them be aware of certain medical conditions that exist that they need to know of and how to keep themselves healthy and fit in order to live long. So that’s the whole reason I started by health advocacy journey and why I use media.”

“Media is a very powerful tool. It can reach more people than if I had just sat in my corner trying to do it on my own. So at least through television, through radio, through Instagram and Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, etc., I can reach out to more people and then people are educated on their health and they can live healthier lives,” she went on.  

For the medical practitioner whose professional studies started in South Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, one of the many highlights of her career since she took her work to traditional and social media is when while discussing breast cancer screening and its importance, she told listeners of the radio show “where they could find me for free breast cancer screening and the next day, I had women from different parts of Ghana coming in. In those that lumps were detected, I referred them for further treatment at the breast cancer center at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital [in Accra].”

Dr. Ewura Adjoa Ahimah Nunoo who works with the Ghana Armed Forces, completed medical school at the University of Ghana, Legon, in 2012.

In 2019, the multiple award-winning medical doctor was sixteenth on Avance Media‘s list of 50 Most Influential Ghanaians.

That year, rapper Kofi Kinaata was first, with media personality Berla Mundi, Arsenal FC player Thomas Partey, singer Stonebwoy and the deputy national communicator for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Sammy Gyamfi following in that order.

She is currently the medical officer in-charge, Duala Medical Center, Burma Camp, Accra.