Finding Doctor Kissi

When I asked Dr. Kissi who supports this hospital? Who funds you? He looked at me and said, “God.”



Just after we arrived in Ghana we were told we had to have physicals done so that we could get our Ghanan non-citizen cards. We had a doctor appointment at 3:00 p.m. on the first of June. We didn’t know where or by whom. Because we were new, Dinah one of the secretaries in the office led in her car and we followed. I thought we were only going a few blocks but I misunderstood and after 45 min. I began to be worried. Where are we going I wondered. We were on a dirt road and the neighborhood was poor. We stopped at the clinic. I wondered if it would be safe to leave our car here on the road.

We walked through a gate to the Deseret Hospital, and entered the small humble clinic and were taken to an exam room to wait. While we were there, I noticed the banner hanging on the wall of the office and I recognized that name.

I had heard of Kissi Branch. Then we met Dr. Kissi. He is over 70 years old. He introduced his wife a trained midwife with whom he runs his clinic. They give their all, their hands, their personal money, their time, and their lives to serving the people here in the middle of no where and serve people who have no other access to medical help.


He briefly examined us I wondered if any of the people in this area had money to pay? So I asked him, “Dr Kissi, who supports your hospital? Who funds you? He said, “God.” I believe he is right. He is one of the Saints of the world, a great man with a great wife. I wanted to give him all the money I had.

In an interview for LDS newsroom he was asked, why he came back to Ghana instead of staying in the United Kingdom to practice as he was invited to do and he said, “When I was going to Britain, my intention was to live there for a short time. Some of my classmates with whom I came did not return to Ghana. I did not pay school fees. My school fees were paid through the toil of the peasants, and so on. So it was my intention to go to England, learn, then come back and serve my people.


This is a day we will not forget. We met Dr. Kissi, a man of God serving his people.
Dr.Emanuel Abu Kissi wrote the book, “Walking in the Sand, which tells about the Church of Jesus Christ of Lattter-Day Saints in Ghana. He graduated from medical school in England, and then returned to Ghana and established the Deseret Hospital. He has served as an Area Seventy and is married to Benedicta and is the father of seven children.


Learn more about Dr. Kissi at: http://www.mormonnewsroom.com.gh/article/church-has-brought-many-blessings-to-ghana