
Dr. Bernard Okoe-Boye
President
Dr. Bernard Okoe-Boye is a Physician and Ghanaian politician. He was a member of the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana representing the Ledzokuku Constituency in the Greater Accra Region on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party. He served as Board Chairman of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, the nation’s largest medical facility from 2018 to 2019.
Oko Boye was born on 25th January, 1982.
He comes from Teshie which falls under the Ledzokuku Constituency where he served as member of Parliament. He attended the Field Engineers Junior High School for his Basic Education Certificate. Okoe-Boye is an old student of the Presbyterian Boys’ Secondary School ( Presec-Legon) where he completed his secondary school education in the year 2000. Bernard Okoe Boye is a licensed medical practitioner by profession, who holds BSC in Human Biology, Bachelor Degree in Medicine and Surgery,MBCHB, (from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He also holds a Masters Degree in Public Health (MPH) from Hamburg School of Applied Science. Dr. Okoe Boye graduated from the Accra Business School with Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) in 2020. He has an A1 certificate in German from the Geothe Institute, Accra.
Okoe-Boye had his house job at the Ghana Health Service from 2009 to 2012 at the Central Regional Hospital, Department of Surgery, Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cape Coast from 2009 to 2011 and then at the Department of Internal Medicine, Tema General Hospital.He then continued as a medical officer at the Kibi Government Hospital, for three years. In 2016 he got transferred to the La General Hospital Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the La General Hospital. Prior to his entry into parliament, Oko-Boye was a medical officer at the LekMA Hospital in Accra.
Okoe-Boye was elected MP for Ledzokuku Constituency in the Greater Accra Region on December 7, 2016 was sworn in on January 7, 2017. He was a member of the Health and Government Assurances Committees of Parliament.
On April 4, 2020, Okoe-Boye was nominated by President Akufo-Addo to serve as a deputy health minister and was subsequently sworn in on April 21, 2020. He lost the Ledzokuku parliamentary seat in the 2020 Ghanaian general election to Benjamin Ayiku Narteh of the NDC.
He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance Authority.
He is the author of two books ,one of which is ” HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE IN BLACK PEOPLE “.
He is married with three Children.