Dr. Lord Mensah is married to Rita Mensah, a registered nurse, and is the father of three girls and one boy. He is the Head of the Department of Child Health at the Volta Regional Hospital in Ho, Ghana.
Dr. Mensah attended the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology’s school of Medical Sciences and received his medical degree in 1995. He completed his internship at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital from 1995 to 1997 and was posted to Worawora. He served as the senior medical officer in charge of both clinical care and administration at Worawora Hospital in the Volta Region of Ghana from 1997 to 2000.
He then completed postgraduate training in Tropical Pediatrics at the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom from 2000 to 2002. He currently practices at the Volta Regional Hospital and leads the Department of Child Health. Dr Mensah specializes in pediatric HIV/AIDs prevention and treatment. He currently is in charge of the management of all HIV/Aids cases involving children at the hospital and is also the focal physician for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
Dr. Mensah is a born-again Christian and an elder in his church. He serves as the choir director, organist and also chaplain of the Men’s Fellowship of the Methodist Church Ghana Ho Circuit. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Men’s Fellowship in the Methodist Church at Jasikan in the northern part of the Volta Region. Dr Mensah has been involved in several Christian medical outreach programs through his church. He hopes to meet the challenges of extending the same services to needy people living in the rural villages of the Volta Region as he oversees the Heartbeat for Africa Foundation’s Mobile Medical Clinic.