As part of initiatives to improve healthcare delivery in Ghana, over 40 health facilities have been completed, according to Health Minister-designate Bernard Okoe-Boye.

Apart from the government’s Agenda 111 project, which aims to build new hospitals throughout the nation, these facilities include polyclinics, district centers, specialized units, and CHIP compounds.

While visiting the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital recently, Dr. Okoe-Boye emphasized the value of exhibiting finished projects as a way to provide motivation for subsequent endeavors.

He also revealed intentions to build 20 more medical facilities in order to improve the nation’s healthcare system even more.

In her remarks, Dr. Okoe-Boye emphasized the government’s commitment to inclusivity, saying that, “sometimes it’s important to look at what has been done to give us hope for what to do.” The second thing I mentioned was to carry us all along, in addition to bettering healthcare. We have finished building roughly 40 structures total—health facilities, polyclinics, district centers, specialized units, CHIP compounds, and everything else—since this government took office.

“I’m not going to show pictures, as I said, we’ll carry everybody along so that you’ll walk through it and experience it. We are working on about 26 facilities, all facilities are outside agenda 111 and I believe strongly that we all will come and appreciate the effort being done.”

Along with the completion of the medical facilities, Dr. Okoe-Boye declared that the government would implement a productive reservation system in public health facilities.

With a goal of streamlining hospital visitation procedures and enhancing overall healthcare service delivery, the system is anticipated to be piloted by the third quarter of 2024.

“We are working in hand with the Ministry, together with the team, Chief Directors, and the technical advisor to make sure that by the third quarter of 2024, this government can pilot a booking system, when it comes to the hospital visitation system.”