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

He is also the first African to be inducted as a diplomate member of the American Professional Wound Care Association 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 methods of caring, curing and providing clinical interventions to worldwide hospital and community wounds and injuries that end up damaging tissues, cells and nerves of the human system like gas gangrenes, forniers gangrene, septic wound, decubitus ulcers, chronic foot and hand ulcers, cancer ulcers and wounds, general road traffic accidents and factory injuries.

Mr Owusu is currently a PhD student and holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc.) degree, a Master in Health Care Management (MHCM and Master of Business Administration (MBA).