Detailed Biography of kwabena frimpong boateng
Nationality: Ghanaian
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Age: 56
Religion: Christian
Marital Status: married to Agnes with five children : one girl, four boys.
Education: He had his secondary education at Sekondi College from. He was admitted for the pre-science programme at the University of Ghana in 1968 before being enrolled into the pre-med programme in 1969. In 1975 Prof. Frimpong-Boateng obtained the MB.ChB degree of the University of Ghana Medical School(UGMS). At the U.G.M.S, he was the best candidate in the final examination in 1975 and winner of the Easmon Prize in Surgery. He became a House Office at the Department of Medicine and Surgery, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital and served as a Medical Office at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital where he was also a Demonstrator in Morbid Anatomy at the School of Medical Sciences at the then University of Science and Technology from. He proceeded to Germany in 1978 for further studies where he spent more than a decade, first for language studies at the Goethe Institutes at Radolfzell(April- May 1978) and Boppard(June-September 1978) and eventually to the Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (Hannover Medical High school), Germany from October 1978 to December 1988 where he earned the following academic qualifications: Facharzt Chirurgie ; Arzt, Thorax & Kardivasc Chirurgie; MD ; and Arzt, Gefäßchirurgie.
Profession: Consultant Cardiovascular Surgeon.
Professional Positions Held: Currently , the Chief Executive Officer of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital as well as Director of the National Cardiothoracic Center and President of the Ghana Heart Foundation. Prof. Frimpong-Boateng is a member of various professional associations. These include the West African College of Surgeons, Ghana Medical Association, German Society of Surgery, International Society for Heart Transplantation, European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgeons, European Chapter of the International Society for Cardiovascular Surgery and International Society for Surgery. He was elected Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences in December 2002.
Awards/Honours : The University of Education, Winneba awarded Prof. Frimpong- Boateng , Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) on 10th September 2004 .
Languages: Very Fluent in Twi, Ga, English, and German.
Hobbies /Special Interests: reading, playing piano, ostrich farming, technology and its trends.
Key policies will be:
a. Education to effect attitudinal change and promote discipline in all aspects of human endeavour
b. Education – informal, formal, vocational and technical to develop human capital for wealth creation
c. Harnessing the human resource for full take-off as an economic power in the West African and continental context and active player in the global scene.
A land that boasts of intelligentsia both in the local domain and in the Diaspora should not lack the human resource for technological advancement. Ghana’s gold in the next republic under the leadership of Prof Frimpong-Boateng will be her people. Himself a former Diasporan, Prof Frimpong-Boateng is in a good position to appreciate the human resource wealth of Ghana, and has a strategy not only to attract Ghanaians in the Diaspora back home but to minimize the brain drain which militates against our nation’s development.
d. Economic empowerment of the individual Ghanaian
Ghana, under the leadership of the present administration headed by president Kuffuor has made humble economic strides. It is the vision of Prof Frimpong-Boateng to build on the firm economic foundations thus established so that Ghanaians would see the economic gains made so far translated into financial gains that they will see in their pockets, purses and bank accounts.
How can this be achieved?
The following measures will be adopted.
1. Mopping up cash that is “floating“ in the system outside the reach of the banks, by building up confidence of the lay public in the financial institutions system.
2. Increasing access of individuals to financial service delivery outlets, including community banks, cash shops and hire purchase facilities.
3. Facilitating domestic trading through the Ghana stock exchange
4. Developing existing and creating new Service oriented businesses such as butchery, auto engineering (auto refrigeration), carpentry, dressmaking and others to international levels and providing them with the necessary tools to compete internationally.
5. Mass mobilisation of the youth to produce crops to feed industries, e.g., jatropha, almond, cotton, palm oil, shea butter, nutmeg
6. Modernisation of the methods of production and cultivation, including tissue cultures of mechanisation of food crops (pineapples, yam plantain cassava).
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