John Andrew Mahoney (Medic)

John Andrew Mahoney MRCS (born March 10, 1919 in Bathurst , † January 30, 2012 ) was a Gambian medic, surgeon, health officer and international civil servant. He was one of the first Gambian surgeons to be trained at the best universities in Great Britain in the 1940s and 1950s.

Life

Mahoney was born the son of Sir John Andrew Mahoney and Hannah Mahoney , members of the lively and most gentle Aku elite in Bathurst during the first three decades of the 20th century who saved their hard earned money to provide their children with the best possible education. which then existed throughout the Commonwealth : Universities in Oxford, Cambridge and London.

He attended the prestigious Methodist Boys High School in Bathurst (now Banjul ) and studied medicine at the University of London , where he qualified as a surgeon and joined the Gambian civil service as a medical officer in December 1951 .

He worked at Bansang and Royal Victoria Hospital until he became Dr. SHO Jones succeeded him as Chief Medical Officer . Mahoney was the second Gambier to hold this high position. In 1965 he was appointed Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, a position he held until 1973. In 1973, Dr. Mahoney retired from the civil service to take up a position as program director at the Regional Office for Africa of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Brazzaville . There he was in good company with another famous Gambian doctor, Dr. Ernest SW Bidwell .

family

In 1952 he married Florence Peters , the first Gambian graduate and PhD student, a great historian who single-handedly contributed to the decolonization of Gambian history thanks to her groundbreaking publications and efforts to build the Gambian archives and museum.

Mahoney was the brother of Augusta Jawara .

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c ^d ^e Tribute - Dr John Andrew Mahoney (1919–2012) Gambian surgeon, health administrator and international civil servant - The Point Newspaper, Banjul, The Gambia. In: thepoint.gm. web.archive.org, 2019, archived from the original on July 19, 2019 ; accessed on July 26, 2020 .
^ ^A ^b David Perfect: Historical dictionary of the Gambia . Fifthition edition. Lanham, Maryland, ISBN 978-1-4422-6522-6 , pp. 281 .

personal data
SURNAME	Mahoney, John Andrew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mahoney Jr., John Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Gambian medic
DATE OF BIRTH	March 10, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bathurst (now Banjul )
DATE OF DEATH	January 30, 2012

[thepoint20120207-1] A ^b ^c ^d ^e Tribute - Dr John Andrew Mahoney (1919–2012) Gambian surgeon, health administrator and international civil servant - The Point Newspaper, Banjul, The Gambia. In: thepoint.gm. web.archive.org, 2019, archived from the original on July 19, 2019 ; accessed on July 26, 2020 .

[Historical_dictionary_of_the_Gambia-2] A ^b David Perfect: Historical dictionary of the Gambia . Fifthition edition. Lanham, Maryland, ISBN 978-1-4422-6522-6 , pp. 281 .