E. F. B. Forster

Edward Francis Bani Forster, FRSA, FWACP, likita ne dan ƙasar Gambia kuma mai ilimi a Ghana. Shi ne likitan mahaukata na farko ɗan ƙasar Gambia, kuma farfesa a fannin masu taɓin hankali a Jami'ar Ghana. Ya yi aiki a matsayin shugaban Kwalejin Likitoci ta Yammacin Afirka daga shekarun 1983 zuwa 1984.

Forster ya kasance memba na Cibiyar Nazarin Likita ta Likitoci, kuma ɗan gidauniyar Kwalejin Likitoci ta Yammacin Afirka. Ya kasance memba  na Royal Society of Arts,  memba na Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy, Amurka, memba na Royal College of Psychiatry, kuma memba na Association of Psychiatrist na Afirka. 

 Rayuwar farko da ilimi 
An haifi Forster a ranar 16 ga watan Disamba 1917 a Banjul, Gambia. Ya yi karatunsa na farko a makarantar firamare ta St. Mary da ke Banjul a ƙasar Gambia daga shekarun 1923 zuwa 1932. A cikin shekarar 1932, an yi masa rajista a Makarantar Grammar Society ta Church a Freetown, Saliyo, da karatun sakandarensa kuma ya kammala karatunsa a shekarar 1937.  A waccan shekarar ya shiga Kwalejin Trinity, Dublin, Ireland,   inda ya sami Licentiate of Medicine a shekara ta 1943, da Diploma a fannin ilimin halayyar ɗan adam a shekara ta 1950.    Daga baya ya cancanci zama memba na Royal College of Physicians, kuma memba na kungiyar likitocin Burtaniya.

 Sana'a 
Forster ya fara aikinsa a matsayin likita na gida a Asibitin Hatsari na Birmingham, a cikin West Midlands na Ingila, a cikin shekarar 1943. A cikin shekara ta 1944, ya shiga Asibitin Mental na Warlingham Park a matsayin likitan gida.  A wannan shekarar, an naɗa shi mataimakin jami’in kula da lafiya a babban asibitin Mental da ke Hatton.  Ya yi aiki a can na kimanin shekaru biyu, bayan haka ya zama babban likita a Birmingham, Ingila. Forster ya koma Gambia a cikin shekara ta 1946 kuma ya yi aiki a karkashin ayyukan likitancin mulkin mallaka har zuwa 1951.   Ya shiga Ma'aikatar Lafiya a Accra,  Ghana inda ya yi aiki a matsayin mai ba da shawara a fannin taɓin hankali sannan daga baya, likita mai kula da Asibitin masu taɓin hankali na Accra.    Ya yi aiki a wannan matsayi har zuwa 1970 lokacin da ya sami aiki a Jami'ar Ghana. 

Bayan ya yi aiki na kimanin shekaru 19 a matsayin likitan da ke kula da Asibitin Masu taɓin hankali na Accra, an naɗa Forster mataimakin farfesa a fannin ilimin Masu taɓin hankali a Makarantar Kiwon Lafiya ta Jami'ar Ghana. A cikin shekarar 1972, an ɗaukaka shi zuwa matsayin farfesa kuma shugaban sashin kula da masu taɓin hankali na Makarantar Kiwon Lafiya ta Jami'ar Ghana.     Ya kasance shugaban Kwalejin Likitoci ta Yammacin Afirka daga shekarun 1983 zuwa 1984.

Forster ya kasance mai karɓar babbar lambar yabo ta Ghana a shekara ta 1973.

 Rayuwa ta sirri 
Forster shi ne ɗan Hannah Forster; 'yar siyasa mace ta farko 'yar Gambia, kuma ɗan'uwan Catherine Collier; Ma'aikacin Radiyon Gambia na farko.  Ya auri Essi Matilda Forster ( née Christian, wacce ita ce mace ta farko da ta zama lauya a Gold Coast) a ranar 17 ga watan Disamba 1944.   Tare, sun haifi 'ya'ya uku: mace ɗaya da maza biyu.  Abubuwan sha'awar Forster sune tafiya, da karatu.

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