Chief Executive Officer of NHIA, Dr Okoe Boye  has on Thursday, 13th of July 2023 been Enskined as Laanfia-Naa(Chief of Health) by the Waala Traditional State.

This was during a courtesy call on Wa Naa, Fuseini Pelpuo IV at his Palace.

Dr Bernard Okoe-Boye is the Board Chairman of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. He is a Member of Parliament for Ledzokuku Constituency in the Greater Accra Region.Dr Oko-Boye is a licensed medical practitioner who holds BSC in Human Biology, Medicine and Surgery 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 and an A1 certificate in German from the Geothe Institute, Accra.

Dr Oko-Boye had his house job at the Ghana Health Service from 2009 to 2012. He then continued as a Medical Officer in the same Institution for four years.
Currently, he is a Physician at Lekma Hospital, a government health facility located at Teshie.As the Board Chair of the Hospital, Dr. Okoe-Boye looks forward to work with his Board Members and relevant stakeholders to make Korle Bu attain higher heights, particularly to maintain its position as the leading teaching hospital and national referral centre.One of his immediate objectives is to eliminate the incidence of turning away patients away on grounds of no bed, which is referred to as ‘No-bed Syndrome’.

Bernard Okoe-Boye is also a Ghanaian politician and 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.

Source: Sungmaale FM