Country Manager at Society for Family Health International Ghana (SFHIG) Theresa Maame Ekua Galley has shared her journey to becoming a qualified Pharmacist.
Speaking to Rev Erskine, host of YFM’s YLeaderboard Series, she reiterated her passion for studying medicine during her tertiary education and eventually becoming a practising doctor.
According to her, having passed her entrance exams at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), she charted into the pharmaceutical profession after some pep talks with her father.
“I wanted to read medicine and at the time people used to measure the school of medicine and that is what I went in for. I had actually gone to Kumasi to write the exams to enter medical school and came back okay. But just as I was about entering medical school my dad sat me down and asked ‘Do you really want to do this doctor thing?’ and I’m like really at this point. Then I said well I’ve always wanted to read medicine. He went again like ‘well look at the number of years you’re going to take and knowing you, you might want to specialize but have you thought about pharmacy?’. They basically make the same impact, shorter’ and once he said shorter number of years, I was sold,” she said.
However, despite switching courses, Theresa Galley believes reading pharmacy has been one of the best decisions she made as a student. For her pharmacy became everything she valued.
