Asanatu K. Sumani

Ms. Asanatu Sumani Kande is a principal midwifery officer by training. She has a background in community health nursing dating back to 1983. She has worked in several places in Ghana attending to the health needs of people.  She supported the works of BasicNeeds-Ghana, a mental health and development advocacy organization in Ghana working to promote initiatives to transform the lives of persons with mental illness or epilepsy.  During her stint with BasicNeeds-Ghana, she delivered community mental mobile services to people of Karaga district of Northern Ghana. She was then transferred to Tamale Central Hospital where she was the Incharge of Reproductive and child health/family planning unit and had the privilege of being a member of Northern Regional family planning resource team and a mentor of rural emergency services for maternal and child health. She has had the opportunity of being a resource person to Marie Stopes Ghana. She also served as a facilitator for the SMART Africa-Ghana study delivering the Dang Malgu (Family Togetherness) sessions to families of the study.