Jacob Kwakye-Maafo

Who is Jacob Kwakye-Maafo?

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.