Bernard Okoe-Boye is a

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ian politician and member of the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana representing the Ledzokuku Constituency in the

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on the ticket of the

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. He is currently the board chairman of the

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, the nation's largest medical facility.

Early life and education

He comes from Teshie which falls under the Ledzokuku Constituency where he serves 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 , country = Ghana , region = Greater-Accra , location = Legon , coordinates = , type = Public high school , religious_affiliation = Presbyterian Church ...

( 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, Medicine and Surgery from the

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) is a public University of Ghana that focuses on science and technology. The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology is the public university established in the country, as well a ...

. He also holds a master's degree in

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(MPH) from Hamburg School of Applied Science and an A1 certificate in German from the Geothe Institute, Accra.

Career

Health sector

Okoe-Boye had his house job at the

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from 2009 to 2012 at the

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, Department of Surgery, Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology,

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from 2009 to 2011 and then at the Department of Internal Medicine, Tema General Hospital. He then continued as a medical officer in the same institution for four years where he worked at Kibi Government 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.

Politics

Okoe-Boye was elected MP for Ledzokuku Constituency in the

on 7 December 2016 was sworn in on 7 January 2017. He is a member of the Health and Government Assurances Committees of Parliament. On 4 April 2020, Okoe-Boye was nominated by President Akufo-Addo to serve as a deputy health minister and was subsequently sworn in on 21 April 2020. He however lost the Ledzokuku parliamentary seat in the

2020 Ghanaian general election General elections were held in Ghana on 7 December 2020. Incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) was re-elected in the first round after securing a majority of the votes. Former President John Dramani Mahama says he ...

to Benjamin Ayiku Narteh of the NDC.

References

Ghanaian MPs 2017–2021 1982 births Living people Presbyterian Boys' Senior High School alumni Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology alumni Ghanaian obstetricians Medical doctors from Accra Ghanaian gynaecologists {{Ghana-politician-stub