Health Ministry develops AI policy to guide safe use of artificial intelligence in Ghana’s healthcare system

The Ministry of Health in Ghana is developing a National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Health Policy and Guidelines to ensure the safe, equitable, and effective adoption of AI across the country's healthcare system. The policy, which will be anchored on Article 34(2) of the 1992 Constitution, aims to strengthen governance, data protection, digital infrastructure, workforce readiness, and regulatory oversight.

Dr Belinda Afriyie Nimako, Director of Policy Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation at MoH, emphasized that AI should be viewed as a health systems strengthening agenda, aimed at improving service delivery, quality of care, patient safety, health equity, and the attainment of Universal Health Coverage (UHC). The policy development is being undertaken in response to the growing complexity of Ghana's disease burden, which places immense pressure on an already stretched health workforce.

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