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Ghanaians today paid their last respects to Dr Emmanuel Evans-Anfom at a state funeral at the forecourt of the State House in Accra.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, as well as the Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, were in attendance to bid farewell to the national icon who was the second Vice-Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and the first President of the Ghana Medical Association.
It was a solemn event with various tributes eulogising the surgeon, academic and statesman, who was born in 1919 and died this year, for all his contributions to the advancement of health care and the development of the country.