Kwame Addo-Kufuor
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Hon. Kwame Addo-Kufuor |
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| Member of Parliament for Manhyia |
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In office 7 January 1997 – 7 January 2009 |
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| Succeeded by | Mathew Opoku Prempeh |
| Minister of the Interior | |
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In office 2008–2009 |
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| President | John Kufuor |
| Preceded by | Kwamena Bartels |
| Succeeded by | Cletus Avoka |
| Minister for Defence | |
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In office January 2001 – 2008 |
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| President | John Kufuor |
| Personal details | |
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July 14, 1940 Kumasi, Ghana |
| Nationality |
 Ghanaian |
| Political party | New Patriotic Party |
| Relations | John Kufuor - brother |
| Profession | Medical doctor |
Doctor Kwame Addo-Kufuor (born 14 July 1940) is a Ghanaian politician and physician. Addo-Kufuor is a member of parliament from Manhyia, and from 2001 to 2007 he was the Minister for Defense under President John Kufuor, his brother. Between June 2008 and 2009, he was Minister for Interior.
Born in Kumasi on July 14 1940 Kwame Addo-Kufuor is a distinguished Ghanaian Consultant Physician and Statesman, former President of the Ghana Medical Association and later, Ghana’s Minister of Defence and Interior. He concurrently served as Member of Parliament for the Manhyia Constituency in Kumasi from 1997-2008.
After primary education in Kumasi, he proceeded to the famous Achimota School in Accra, Ghana after which he gained admission to study at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, England, where he initially enrolled in the arts earning a Master’s degree before switching to the sciences to do a Bachelor of Medicine, and Bachelor of Surgery degree. He became the first black student to be Secretary of the Medical Students Association at Jesus College before continuing with other advance courses in medicine at the University College Medical School, London. His post graduate studies were at The Middlesex Medical School Hospital, London. In 1975, Addo Kufuor passed the MRCP (UK) examination.
Addo-Kufuor started his medical practice as a member of the teaching staff of the Middlesex Medical School Hospital and other hospitals in London before returning home to Ghana. He first worked at two of the country’s leading hospitals, the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra and later the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi. It was in Kumasi in 1978 that he later set up what became one of the city’s leadings clinics- Kufuor Clinic of which he remains to date as the Consultant- Physician in charge.
In Kumasi during that period, he became a Lecturer at the Department of Medicine at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Which University instituted in his honour in 1990, the Addo-Kufuor Prize for the best student in the final Bachelor of Medicine examination.
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