James Franklin Osman Adewale Ishola Mustaffah,[1] FRCS, FICS was a Ghanaian academic and neurosurgeon.
[7] Mustaffah studied at the local Roman Catholic School in Aboso, where he was classmates with actor Bob Cole and musician Michael Amissah.
He also served as chief of neurosurgery at the National Neurosurgical Centre of the Ghana Medical School.
Dr. Fitz-Williams, a Soviet-trained cardiothoracic surgeon at the hospital at the time, described the allegations questioning the competence of Dr. Mustaffah as funny.
[17] Dr. Mustaffah in his defence claimed that he had only "objected to doctors doing rounds on his patients without his consent".
[19] He added that it was not impossible for an incompetent person to run the neurological ward for over 20 years, and also serve as president of the Pan African Association of Neuro Surgergical Sciences.
[5][6] Following Mustaffah's death in 1997, the Ghana Muslim Students Association (GMSA) instituted an annual lecture in his honour for "his immense contribution in the country's health delivery system".