Minister for Defence

Hon. Dr. Kwame Addo-Kufuor the member of Parliament (MP) for Manhyia, and the Minister of Defence, was born on July 14th 1940, Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. He had his Secondary education at Achimota School and proceeded to study medicine at the University College Hospital Medical School in London.


In 1970, he was awarded a degree in medicine by the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

He completed his post graduate studies at the Middlesex Medical School Hospital London, UK, in 1975, and worked at several hospitals in UK.

These include West Suffolk General Hospital, Edmonds; St. Charles Hospital, London; Old Church Hospital, Essex; St Helhers Hospital London.

He has held a number of positions, especially in the medical Students Association of Jesus College, Cambridge; past Chairman, Jesus College United Nations Students Association; past National President, Ghana Medical Association, and past Representative for West Africa on the Confederation of African Medical Associations.

Other positions he held are past Chairman of Operations, Prisons Council of Ghana; Member of National council of he New Patriotic Party (NPP); Chairman of Health Committee of NPP; Inspector of Examinations for Final Bachelor of Medicine Examinations, University of Ghana Medical School, and Member of Board of Examiners for foreign trained doctors applying to work in Ghana.

The rest are Member of the House Committee, the Health Committee and the Committee on Selection in Parliament; Medical Director, Kufuor Clinic, Kumasi and part time lecturer, Department of Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology) and the member of Parliament for Manhyia.

He has a few publication to his credit. These include Safe Motherhood in the Upper West Region of Ghana, GMA Publication, Editor, Propranolol, Diazepam and their Combination in the Management of Chronic Anxiety in the Ghanaian Patient, Health For all by the Year 2000 ­ Ghana Medical a Journal 1993-94 Volume 27-28.