[3][4] After his secondary education, Nartey graduated with a bachelor's degree in dentistry from the University of Ghana Medical School in 1980.
[11] However, it was not until 2011 that Nartey revealed work was to begin on the expansion and re-equipment of the National Radiotherapy Centre meant for cancer treatment.
[17] The next month, Nartey objected to a proposal made by the health minister, Alban Bagbin for a dissolution of the hospital's board.
[18] In March 2012, Nartey made comments suggesting that the hospital should be subjected to private control to raise money and for efficient operation.
[20] In September 2012, Nartey decision to break into the hospital's pharmacy in order to dispense drugs to patients under emergency met with criticism from the pharmacists association, whose members were on strike, as being illegal.
[23] Nii Otu is married to Merley Afua Newman-Nartey, an academic at the department of Orthodontics and Pedodontics of the University of Ghana Dental School.