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Jacob Kenneth Kofi Kwakye-Maafo also known as Nana Ohemeng Awere V is a Ghanaian Physician and a Surgeon specializing in Obstetrics and Gynecology; and the chief executive of the (West End Hospital ), Kumasi. A past president of the (Ghana Medical Association ), he is an advocate of community health and has helped establish several health centres, rural hospitals and clinics in the Ashanti Region of Ghana notably the (Ankaasi Faith Healing Methodist Hospital ) and the Lake Clinic at Amakom near Lake Bosomtwi. As a respected practitioner in Ghana, he was part of the committee set up by the government of Ghana in 2003 and tasked with the implementation of the (National Health Insurance Scheme ) in Ghana. Dr Kwakye-Maafo is the elder brother of Hon. Yaw Osafo-Maafo, the former finance minister during the President Kufuor administration and (Dr Isaac Adjei-Maafo ), who was a minister of Agriculture and later head of the Ghana Cocoa Board during the PNDC era. ==Education and Training== Jacob Kenneth Kwakye-Maafo had his primary education at the Awisa Presbyterian Boarding School, Akim-Awisa in the Eastern Region of Ghana from 1944 to 1953. In January 1954 he entered the (Abuakwa State College ) as a first year student; where he is still on record as the only student to have collected the most prizes at one sitting. In December 1956 whilst in Form 3 and on the occasion of the Annual Speech & Prize Giving Day, under the Headship of the late (Mr. C.J. Bannerman ), Jacob collected ten out of the twelve Prizes offered including the overall best student award in the Class. In January 1959, he entered sixth form at the Opoku Ware School in Kumasi where he passed his Cambridge High School Certificate in 1960 with Distinction. In August 1961 he was awarded the Ghana Government Scholarship to study Medicine in Germany where he studied German at the University of Leipzig and University of Greifswald in 1962; he was admitted to the Freie University of Berlin, under the German/Ghanaian Scholarship Programme DAAD. He graduated as a Medical Practitioner (ARZT) after passing the State Examination (STAATSEEXAMEN) with “ Cum Laude ” in September, 1968. In 1971 he was awarded the Doctor of Medicine (MD) Degree at the Freie University (http://www.fu-berlin.de ), Berlin.(MB. ChB) After qualification, he worked in several hospitals in Berlin including the (Rudolf VIRCHOW ), (Westend Klinikum ) and the (Frauenklinik am Mariendorferweg ). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jacob Kwakye-Maafo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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