Jacob Amekor Blukoo-Allotey

Blukoo-Allotey attended at the Accra Academy, where he graduated in 1948. He proceeded to the United Kingdom to study medicine at the University of Liverpool.[1] There, he was the president of the city's Ghana Students' Association.[2][3][4] He graduated in 1959,[5][6] and in 1960, he became a Licensiate of the Royal College of Physicians, London, and a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.[7] He later went to the United States of America on a scholarship to study Pharmacology for his Master's degree.[1][8]

Following his studies in the United Kingdom, Blukoo-Allotey returned to Ghana where he registered as a medical personnel on 12 May 1961.[7] He consequently worked as a physician with the Ministry of Health until the mid 1960s when he took up a job as a lecturer at the Pharmacology department of the University of Ghana Medical School.[1][6][9] While working as a lecturer at the University of Ghana Medical School, he was appointed chairman of the then State Pharmaceutical Corporation. In 1968, the corporation became a division of the Ghana Industrial Holdings Corporation (GIHOC) and he acted as general manager of the division.[10][11] In 1970, he was sent to Europe by the Ghana Industrial Holdings Corporation on a special leave.[12] He was subsequently appointed General Manager of the State Pharmaceutical division of GIHOC.[13][14][15][16][17] In 1982, he was appointed member of the then newly formed PNDC government by the then chairman of the PNDC, Jerry John Rawlings.[18] He however declined the appointment, and his request for exemption from the government was accepted by the then chairman Rawlings.[18] In 1994, he became council chairman for the Centre for Scientific Research into Plant Medicine, the second person in the role, and held this role till 2005.[19] He was a director on the board of Dannex Limited.[20]

In 2008, the national award of the Order of the Volta was conferred upon Blukoo-Allotey by the then president of Ghana, John Agyekum Kufuor for his service to Ghana in the field of medicine.[21]

Blukoo-Allotey was married to Mrs. Cynthia Blukoo-Allotey. He is the father of Jean Mensa (née Blukoo-Allotey), the chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana. He was a Christian and a member of the Accra Ridge Church. He died on 7 February 2016 at the age of 87.