The 7th edition 2022 of the Dr Gabriel Sultan Prize honored several generations of qualified Guinean doctors this Saturday, March 11, 2023. The ceremony was held in the hall of the CAMES amphitheater of Gamal Abdel Nasser University in Conakry. An initiative of the NGO La Tabala which distinguishes each year the great doctors (biologists, pharmacists, nurses, general practitioners, midwives) of our country through surveys in the various health structures, learned on the spot Guineematin.com at through one of his reporters.
The dermatologist, Professor Thierno Mamadou Tounkara is one of the personalities of the Guinean health system recipient of the Gabriel Sultan prize, awarded by the NGO La Tabala. This doctor was chosen for his respect for medical ethics in the exercise of his work during the year 2022. He expressed his satisfaction for this distinction.
“It is a feeling of satisfaction and gratitude in the sense that if through the NGO La Tabala we had the opportunity to be distinguished among so many other deserving, we can only thank the organizers but also our family , our supervisors and all our colleagues who have made this possible. This distinction is also a call to responsibility because to be distinguished is one thing, but to continue to deserve the distinction is another. We will commit to continue working to continue to deserve this distinction from the corporation which honors us once once more,” he said.
The Gabriel Sultan prize for the best pharmacist 2022 was awarded to the current director general of the Central Pharmacy of Guinea (PCG). Dr. Labila Sagno dedicated his award to PCG staff.
“I would like to dedicate this prize to all the staff of the Central Pharmacy of Guinea who spare no effort to achieve the objectives assigned to the Central. I take this opportunity to thank the Minister of Health and Public Hygiene for his unfailing support… Finally, I would like to say thank you to the President of the transition, Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya who made the Central Purchasing Center a priority. This nomination still motivates us because somewhere we say to ourselves that everything we do in the shadows is recognized. We will double the efforts so that the objectives are achieved, in particular the availability of health products up to the last structure of the country which are the health posts”, reassured the winner.
The grand prize for the 7th edition of La Tabala went to the Minister of Health and Public Hygiene, Mamadou Péthé Diallo, chosen for all the reforms he has undertaken since his appointment to this post.
“I can only express both a feeling of pride and also a deep emotion to find some of my supervisors whom I had not seen for several years and whom I have the privilege of finding, others among they, most of whom were also masters, my elders who supervised us, they gave us self-confidence. The Ministry of Health whose management has been entrusted to me today is the culmination of your training and your blessings. I am only the continuation of your work. I ask you to continue to accompany me, to bless me and to advise me. I would like to end my remarks by talking regarding our late father, our master, Doctor Gabriel Sultan. Those of us, the youth, who had the chance to know the man, still remember in him the memory of this simplicity, this devotion and especially this patriotism. I remember myself, I was a young child in Tougué with my father who was a nurse for major endemics, he had the pleasure of knowing Doctor Gabriel Sultan, he often came to our house to participate in awareness campaigns where he came to field mission. He took the time to speak to young people by explaining things to us. I think that I took my vocation to become a doctor by listening to him. It was when I saw him that I told my father, I too would like to become a doctor one day. And my vocation to become a public health doctor, it is also thanks to him that I acquired it, and to the doctors he trained, some of whom are there and others are no longer there, “revealed the health Minister.
The president of the NGO La Tabala, Dr Abdoulaye Kaba explained the choice of Minister Mamadou Péthé Diallo. ” Give honour where honour is due. The honor goes to the Minister of Health who is in the process of making the overhaul of our health system his hobbyhorse. It is not easy to bring regarding reforms. They are painful, but they have to be done. Today, the Minister of Health is making a lot of reforms in our health system. It was the place for us to magnify these reforms by rewarding him with the prize of prizes, that is to say the Grand Prix Tabala 2022”, explained Dr Abdoulaye Kaba.
Other pioneers of the health system, in particular the first 3 promotions of the Faculty of Medicine of Guinea also benefited from satisfécits of recognitions awarded by the NGO La Tabala.
Mamadou Tanou Bah for Guineematin.com
