J. K. Bandoh

He was the director of medical services at the Ministry of Defence, and a former president of the West African College of Physicians.

[1][2] His early formative years began at the St John’s Catholic School in Bekwai in September 1937.

He was posted once more, this time, to the Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Hospital in Mampong, where he worked as a physician specialist.

[8] He was a personal physician to former heads of state (Edward Akufo-Addo and General I. K. Acheampong) and Ghanaian royalty (Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu Agyeman Prempeh II, Otumfuo Opoku Ware II, Nana Afua Kobi Serwah Ampem).

He was elected fellow of the West African College of Physicians, and became  the first Ghanaian to serve as its president from 1993 to 1994.

[1][2] Bandoh married Evelyn Jocelyn van der Puije, a doctor he had met while working at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.