[ 2017-02-02 ]

Korle Bu has become a bigger monster – Frimpong-Boateng
The Minister-designate for Science and Technology
and former Chief Executive Officer of the Korle-Bu
Teaching Hospital, Dr. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng
has stated that the Hospital has now become a
“bigger monster” than it used to be.

The Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, the biggest
hospital in West Africa has over the years been in
the news for several wrong reasons. Several CEOs
have failed to transform the hospital with staff
constantly demanding the dismissal of its heads
and board members.

Appearing before Parliament’s Appointments
Committee Thursday, the former Head of the
National Cardiothoracic Centre who wrote a book
– Taming a Monster – detailing how he
navigated his tenure at the Hospital said Korle Bu
has now become a monster that cannot be killed.

“It has become a bigger monster that you cannot
kill and you cannot eat,” Dr. Frimpong Boateng
said Thursday.

Dr. Frimpong-Boateng’s book is a revealing
‘report’ on how as CEO of Korle Bu Teaching
Hospital he attempted to tame the monster the
hospital had become.

Profile of Dr. Frimpong-Boateng

Born 1950, Prof. Frimpong-Boateng is a
Cardiothoracic Surgeon who established the Cardio
Centre some 22 years ago. He was once the Chief
Executive Officer of the Korle Bu Teaching
Hospital in Accra where he resigned to go into
politics in 2006.

He had his secondary education at the Sekondi
College in Sekondi in the Western Region and
continued to the University of Ghana in 1968 where
he started with a one year pre-science course and
in 1969 he was admitted as an undergraduate in
medicine.

In 1975, he obtained the MB (Bachelor of Medicine)
and ChB (Bachelor of Surgery) degrees at the
University of Ghana Medical School and was
adjudged the best candidate in the final
examination. He won the Easmon Prize for being the
best student in surgery.

He served as a House Officer at the Departments of
Medicine and then Surgery, Korle Bu Teaching
Hospital, and later worked as a Medical Officer at
the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.

He went to Germany in 1978 for further studies,
and spent more than ten years there where he
specialised in cardiothoracic surgery at the
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (Hannover Medical
High school), Germany in Hanover from October 1978
to December 1988.

He qualified as a general, cardiothoracic and
vascular surgeon and subsequently worked as a
consultant cardiothoracic surgeon and was one of
the pioneers of the heart transplantation
programme in Hannover, where he also taught both
undergraduate and postgraduate Thorax,
Cardio-thoracic and Vascular Surgery.

Prof. Frimpong-Boateng returned to Ghana to
practice as Ghana’s first locally based
cardiothoracic surgeon and set up the National
Cardiothoracic Centre at the Korle Bu Teaching
Hospital in 1992 as there were no cardiothoracic
surgery facilities in the country at the time.

He is still the President of the Ghana Heart
Foundation, the Ghana Red Cross Society and a
Professor at the Department of Surgery, Ghana
Medical School.

Source - Starrfmonline.com

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