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Eustace Akwei

b. 1913

Ghanaian politician

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Born 1913. Eustace Akwei is a Ghanaian politician and minister.

Eustace Akwei (3 December 1913 – ?) was a Ghanaian medical doctor. He was the first Ghanaian to be appointed Chief Medical Officer in the Gold Coast.

Early life Akwei was born on 3 December 1913. He was educated at Achimota School in Accra and at Edinburgh University. He was a former Rockefeller Travelling Fellow and later became the first Ghanaian to be appointed Chief Medical Officer to the Ministry of Health in the Gold Coast in 1955. He was one of the prominent doctors present at the inauguration of the Ghana Medical Association in 1958. He was removed from his chief medic role in 1959 by Kwame Nkrumah, who was at the time the Prime Minister of Ghana. He subsequently joined the World Health Organization and was based in Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo. After the coup d'état in 1966, he was reappointed Chief Medical Officer by the new National Liberation Council (NLC) military government which replaced the ruling Nkrumah government.

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Minister for Health of Ghana

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Ghanaian politician

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Eustace Akwei was born on 3 December 1913.

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Eustace Akwei is a politician and minister.

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Eustace Akwei is Ghanaian.

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· Wikipedia: Eustace Akwei

· Wikidata: Q72925106

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