The President Nana Akufo Addo on Thursday appointed former Ledzokuku MP, Dr Bernard Okoe Boye as the acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA).

The former deputy Health Minister replaces the current CEO of the Authority, Dr Lydia Dsane-Selby.

Mr Okoe Boye resumes office on 3 May 2022.

“Pursuant to Section 14(1) of the National Health Insurance Act, 2012 (Act 852), I am pleased to inform you that the President has appointed you to act as the Chief Executive of the National Health Insurance Authority (the Authority), pending receipt of the constitutionally required advice of the governing board of the Authority, given in consultation with the Public Services Commission,” the Presidency announced.

Background

Dr Okoe Boye was born in Teshie in the Greater Accra Region on January 25, 1982, Dr Oko Boye is a New Patriotic Party member.

He holds a Master’s Degree in Public Health (MPH) from Hamburg School of Applied Science, an A1 Certificate In German (Goethe Institute, Accra), BSc In Medicine and Surgery from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, and BSc Human Biology from the same institution.

Dr Okoe Boye is an old student of the Presbyterian Boys’ Secondary School (PRESEC-Legon).

Bernard Okoe-Boye is 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. He is currently the board chairman of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, the nation’s largest medical facility

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 to Benjamin Ayiku Narteh of the NDC