By Miranda La Rose
“If you cannot help to teach your children at home and give them a good foundation for schooling, what then is the purpose of an education?” asked Angela Sawh nee Issardin, homemaker, community activist and mother of four sons, all Guyana scholars.
Sawh’s family is believed to be the only nuclear one in the country that has produced four Guyana scholars. The boys attended St Gabriel’s Primary where they wrote the common entrance examinations and secured places at Queen’s College (QC). Having completed high school with the title Guyana scholar, they all subsequently graduated from the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus, Jamaica with doctoral degrees in medicine.
Today Dr Dayanand Sawh, the eldest son, is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon, practising in Kingston, Jamaica. He is followed by hospitalist Dr Amar K Sawh, pathologist Dr Ravindra Sawh and critical care intensivist and neurologist Dr Shailendra Sawh.