Parliament has approved the nomination of Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye for the position of Deputy Minister of Health.
The approval followed the recommendation of the Appointments Committee of the house for his nomination to be approved by consensus after Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye appeared before the committee on Wednesday.
Chairman of the Appointments Committee and First Deputy Speaker, Osei Owusu read the report of the committee on the floor.
President Nana Akufo-Addo nominated Bernard Okoe Boye as a Deputy Minister of Health-designate on April 6, 2020.
The Deputy Minister-designate was vetted on Wednesday, April 15, 2020, and at his vetting, Dr. Oko-Boye has supported the government’s decision to partially lockdown parts of Ghana instead of a total national lockdown in the fight against COVID-19.
Referencing the graph of recorded cases which he said are flattening, the Doctor believes the partial lockdown declared by government better than a total national lockdown.
The Board Chairman of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital during his vetting in Parliament on April 15, 2020, clarified that the growing numbers are largely due to the steady progress of samples being tested since the first cases were recorded on March 11.
Profile of Dr Bernard Okoe-Boye
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 a suburb of Accra.
