Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng FGA (born 1949) is a Ghanaian physician and cardiothoracic surgeon who established the National Cardiothoracic Center in Accra, Ghana.
He is also the president of the Ghana Heart Foundation and was the chief executive officer of Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra.
A well-known figure in his country, Frimpong-Boateng was elected a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences in December 2002.
Early life and education
Prof. Frimpong-Boateng had his secondary education at Sekondi College, located in Sekondi in the Western Region of Ghana. He went to the University of Ghana in 1968, starting with a one-year pre-science course. Then in 1969, he was admitted as an undergraduate in University of Ghana Medical School.
In 1975, he obtained an MB ChB degree from the University of Ghana Medical School. He was the best candidate in the final examination, becoming the winner of the Easmon Prize for being the best student in surgery.
He served as a House Officer or Intern at the departments of medicine and surgery, in Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, and later worked as a medical officer at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region.
He left for Germany in 1978 for further studies, and spent more than ten years there, first for language studies at the Goethe Institute at Radolfzell and Boppard in 1978. The he specialised in cardiothoracic surgery at Hannover Medical School, Germanyin Hanover from 1978 to 1988, where he earned several academic qualifications.
Politics
In March 2006, Frimpong-Boateng announced his intention to seek the nomination as the candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the December 2008 National Presidential Elections.[8][9] Documentaries were made about his life and his hopes, but at the end, the candidate elected was Nana Akufo-Addo.
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| Frimpong-Boateng with President Nana Akufo-Addo |
Regardless of his result, he declared he is still concerned with political issues in relation to education and health problems.
He would later regret that political corruption in Ghana was too much and said that in his opinion politicians were not taking social priorities into account, especially the need of technology. After the 2016 election, he was appointed as the minister for Environment and natural resource, a position he acted in from the year 2017 to 2021.
Personal life
Frimpong-Boateng and his wife, Agnes, have five children, one of whom is a promising athlete.
Frimpong-Boateng is a farmer. He established the first ostrich farm in Ghana, in the village of Dedukope, in the Volta Region. He also grows jatropha for the production of bio-diesel. Frimpong-Boateng runs a CNC machine tool centre that is able to produce spare parts with computer precision at the Free Zones enclave in the port city of Tema.
He is a Christian. He has said that his work on the foundation of the National Cardiothoracic Centre was God's purpose in his life to do and he believes that was his purpose of creation and he is grateful, and has declared that Ghana needs a "God-fearing" man to lead the country. He has quoted Albert Einstein saying: "I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."In 2011, in his 60s, he considered himself still a strong man with passion "by God’s grace."