News:
December 3, 2025
A total sum of Twenty-Two Billion, Eight Hundred and Four Million, Nine Hundred and One Thousand, Fifty-Six Ghana Cedis (GHC 22,804,901,056.00) has been approved for the operations of the Ministry of Health for the year ending 31st December, 2026.
Parliament gave the approval on Tuesday, November 2, 2025 after the Committee on Health presented its report on the annual budget estimates of the Ministry of Health for the 2026 financial year.
The Committee requests that the Ministry of Finance releases funds regularly and honours all its commitments to the Ministry of Health to ensure effective performance of their mandate.
In 2026, the Ministry has programmed a number of priority areas including;
I) Operationalize the Ghana Medical Trust Fund to support the management of NCDs
II) Strengthen the implementation of Free Primary Healthcare at the lower levels of care
III) Training and recruitment of health workforce
IV) Procurement of essential health commodities and vaccines
V) Continue the scale-up of the implementation of Health Information Systems (eg., E-HEALTH, GHiLMIS, etc) to lower levels to improve patient management.
The under listed projects will also receive the required approvals for Project Commencement activities:
i, Construction of 12 CHPS compounds at selected locations in the country
ii, Psychiatric Hospital Projects :
iii. Construction of three (3) Regional Hospitals (Western North, ‘Savanna, Oti)
iv. Construction of Specialist Hospital at Ajumako Bisease
v). Ho Teaching Hospital Redevelopment
vi. Construction of a 500-bed paediatric hospital in Accra
vii. Construction of Central Medical stores
yiii. Construction & Completion of District Hospitals (Shama, Bole, Bawku, Akatsi and Sandema)
The Ministry also intends to focus on progressing and completing ongoing projects to attain 100% completion. They are
i) Construction and equipping of CHPS compound/Health centres at selected locations in the country
ii) Reconstruction of LA General Hospital
iii) Agenda 111 Projects.
iv) Rehabilitation of Juaboso Hospital,
v) Konfo Anokye Teaching Hospital Maternity block
Meanwhile, the Minster of Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh has disclosed that Government is rolling out Ghana Health Information Management System (GHIMS) across health facilities starting with teaching hospitals. The state-owned GHIMS is to replace the Lightwave Health Information Management System (LHIMS) run by a private company.
Ghanamps.com