• Health

    OBG reviews the government and private health sectors highlighting opportunities for international medical providers to enter local markets. Overall spending, ratios of medical staff, facilities per capita and project spending plans are analysed. Health tourism also comes under scrutiny where relevant.
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How is the government increasing capacity in line with population growth?

 

Ghana’s government has prioritised educational reform in recent years in a bid to improve access at all levels of the system. To this end, in 2018 the state introduced its Free Senior High School (SHS) policy, an initiative which provides free tuition for attendees at all public secondary schools. On top of this, to improve learning outcomes...

Chapter | Health & Education from The Report: Ghana 2019

Ghana’s economic development is leading to heightened demand for specialised private health services, while on the public side; the government has made commitments to improve universal health coverage and is implementing plans to tackle specific challenges such as non-communicable diseases and a shortage of health professionals. Such commitments to legal reform and public resource provision will...

Ghana continues to be one of the most stable countries in sub-Saharan Africa and has developed substantially over the years. Now one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies, the country is starting to move away from traditional resource dependency. However, it faces the challenge of ensuring the widest benefit from that expansion, given its growing and increasingly urbanised population.

 

How are regulation and licensing changing as the private sector becomes involved in health care?

 

The pharmaceutical market has expanded its geographical reach in recent decades, and this trend appears to be here to stay. In a survey of major pharmaceutical firms conducted by global consulting firm PwC’s Strategy team, more than half of respondents anticipated that over 30% of their global sales would originate in emerging markets by 2018...

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