Bringing Christmas spirit to the hospital wards

WHEN Gus Ganda was planning his escape from war-torn Liberia, his first thought was of America, but fate and faith intervened.

On the advice of Lee Cahill, an African Missions Father, he ended up coming instead to Cork where he studied and is now practising medicine. He had a BSc in chemistry and biology when he came here eight years ago and had already studied medicine for a year and a half.

“Fr Cahill was instrumental in my coming here. I wasn’t thinking of Cork or Ireland. My first thoughts were of America, where I have some family, or Britain. But he looked into the possibility of me coming to Ireland and we discovered it would be possible for me to study at University College Cork and so here I am.”