Respected family physician Dr. Doris Kyeremateng has joined the board of MicCom Cancer Foundation. The foundation was established by the founder of MicCom Golf Hotel and Resort, Ada, Osun State Prince Tunde Ponnle, in memory of his wife who died of cancer.
Dr. Kyeremateng, a Ghanaian who is based in Canada, was in 2006 installed as the President of the Manitoba College of Family Physicians. As President, Dr. Kyeremateng represented the province of Manitoba on the board of the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC).
Dr. Kyeremateng migrated to Canada in 1995 and has been practicsing in Winnipeg. She owns and runs the Autumnwood Medical Center in Windsor Park in Winnipeg. She obtained her MD. at the University of Bergen, Norway in 1992 where she practised as a General Practitioner until 1995, when she moved to Winnipeg with her family.
She completed a two-year Family Medicine residency programme at the University of Manitoba in 2000.
Dr. Kyeremateng has donated a mammogram machine to the Ada, Osun State-based foundation. The Foundation’s Primary Health Centre is being expanded to accommodate the mammogram. A radiologist is to be engaged from Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital (OAUTH) to join the technical experts.