Dr. I. M. Spence-Lewis visited Kumasi from Sunday 14th – 18th September 2008, at the invitation of Rev G. K. Mensah, Presiding Elder of the 14th African Methodist Episcopal District of the ASHANTI Region In Kumasi Ghana and newly elected member to the Board of the A.M.E. Church in the United States. Rev. Mensah is also Senior Minister in, Kumasi for the Bishop Hatcher Church.

Dr Spence-Lewis spoke at Bishop Hatcher Church on the need not only for training in quality health care but quality health facilities equipped to meet the challenges of deaths and illness from malaria, and other conditions in children under five and those who are older. More detailed interventions must be put in place to prevent not only maternal deaths but damage to unborn children from the effects of malaria during pregnancy. This requires massive education of the people where religious and Faith groups could play a significant role.

A courtesy visit was made to the Boakye Danquah Clinic also in Kumasi to discuss health preventative interventions for malaria.

The trip to Kumasi was concluded with a visit to the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR) located at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana. The acting director of KCCR, Dr. Frank Huenger (Head of Laboratories), shared information with Dr. Spence-Lewis about the importance of quality assurance and control in research and rural health care. KCCR is a joint venture of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Ghana, KNUST and the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany.