Template:Did you know nominations/Kwaku Ohene-Frempong
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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 09:24, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
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Kwaku Ohene-Frempong
- ... that Kwaku Ohene-Frempong, an expert in sickle cell disease, decided to devote his life to the study of the disease after his newborn son was diagnosed with it while he was in medical school? Source: “ Soon after his first child, Kwame, was born on May 13, 1972, Dr. Kwaku Ohene-Frempong discovered that the boy had a fatal genetic disease.
“I was holding Kwame, and he came upstairs with tears in his eyes,” Dr. Ohene-Frempong’s wife, Janet Ohene-Frempong, said in an interview, recalling the moment her husband broke the news. “He said, ‘Our son, Kwame, has sickle cell disease.’ He knew what that meant.” Sickle cell can result in searing pain, organ damage, strokes, susceptibility to infections and premature death.
Dr. Ohene-Frempong, a medical student at Yale at the time, then called his mother at their family home in Ghana. “God is telling you something,” she told him. The message, she said, was to use his medical training to help combat the disease. And that is what he did “until he drew his last breath,” Ms. Ohene-Frempong said.
“The most important thing that happened to us is Kwame’s birth,” she added. “It changed the trajectory of our lives and of hundreds and hundreds of people around the world. All the work he did — every bit of it — he did because of Kwame.”” The New York Times
5x expanded by Thriley (talk) and Spencer (talk). Nominated by Thriley (talk) at 03:23, 6 June 2022 (UTC).
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Article was expanded 13.2× from 4–6 June, so is new and long enough. Earwig looks good and the article is well-sourced. Hook is interesting and is sourced in the article. QPQ is good. I don't see any concerns, so I'm marking this as good to go. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 03:47, 20 June 2022 (UTC)