How healthy is Ghana’s health sector?
Published on: Wednesday 30 September 2026
A background in medicine is not needed to know the pulse and heartbeat of Ghana’s health delivery. The strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing the health sector are evident. Ghana is endowed with 12 medical schools and 150 accredited nursing and midwifery training institutions (according to the current online directory of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana), yielding a cohort of medical personnel, some of whom deny themselves of greener pastures abroad to serve Ghana, for better or for worse.
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