Agogo, Ghana

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Agogo is a city in Asante Akim North District of Ashanti Region of Ghana. Agogo is approximately 80 kilometers east of Kumasi, the Ashanti regional capital.

The 2000 Ghana census recorded a population of 28,271 in Agogo. Computer projections of the population estimate a 2007 population of 32,859.

Agogo Presbyterian Hospital, established 21 March 1931, is the oldest Mission hospital in Ghana, and its Ophthalmology program serves patients from Ghana, Burkina Faso, Côte D'Ivoire, and Togo. [cite web |url=http://www.who.int/buruli/events/agogo_hospital/en/index.html |title=Agogo Presbyterian Hospital, Ghana |publisher=World Health Organization |accessdate=2007-06-24] There is also a collaboration with the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Resarch (KCCR) in Kumasi, which is part of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kumasi and associated with the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, Germany. The Asante-Akyem campus of Presbyterian University College is in Agogo, with a health and medical sciences department affiliated with the hospital. [cite web |url=http://www.presbyunifound.org/college.htm |title=Presbyterian University College |publisher=Presbyterian University College Foundation |accessdate=2007-06-24]

Agogo and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in partnership with Fort Lauderdale-based Citrix Systems and Sister Cities International, launched the prototype Cyber Sister Cities (CSC) program. [cite press release |url=http://www.sister-cities.org/sci/whatsnew/PressStories/50th-Citrix |title=Citrix Systems, Inc. to be honored at Sister Cities International Gala |publisher=Sister Cities International |date=10 July 2006 |accessdate=2007-06-24]

ister City

Agogo has one sister city: [cite web |url=http://www.sister-cities.org/icrc/directory/Africa/Ghana/index |title=Online Directory Ghana, Africa |publisher=Sister Cities International |accessdate=2007-06-24]

* Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

References

External links

* [http://www.presbyuniversity.edu.gh/corp_div_puc.cfm?BrandsID=51 Presbyterian Universtity College, Agogo]
* [http://www.who.int/buruli/events/agogo_hospital/en/index.html Agogo Presbytarian Hospital]
* [http://www.kccr-ghana.org KCCR]