Theresa, whose last name was Mensah before she adopted her husband’s, worked as a nurse and a midwife before becoming the First Lady.

In the Government’s White Paper on Educational Reforms, which intended to implement the Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (FCUBE) program, she is also credited with promoting reforms in policy.

Theresa attended school at the Catholic Convent, OLA, in Keta, in the Volta Region, before relocating to London, where she graduated from the Southern Hospital Group of Nursing, Edinburgh, Scotland, and became a registered general nurse.

At the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford and Paddington General Hospital in London, she continued her education, earning a State Certified Midwife Certificate in Premature Nursing.

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