{
  "id": 12292798,
  "title": "Ghana: President Mahama Urges Africans to Turn Health Dependence Into Investment Opportunity",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/ghana-president-mahama-urges-africans-to-turn-health-dependence-into",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-06T03:46:50.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "AllAfrica Health",
    "slug": "allafrica-health",
    "url": "https://allafrica.com/stories/202610060041.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama has urged African governments, financial institutions, and private investors to reposition healthcare as a high-growth economic sector that can drive industrialisation, job creation, and economic resilience across the continent. Speaking at the inaugural Alamein Africa Forum in El Alamein, Egypt, Mahama emphasized that Africa must move away from viewing healthcare primarily as a social expenditure and instead mobilise capital to develop pharmaceutical manufacturing, regional supply chains, and health-related industries. He highlighted the continent's dependence on importing over 70% of its pharmaceuticals and nearly 99% of its vaccines, which results in tens of billions of dollars leaving African economies annually and exposes countries to disruptions in international supply chains. Mahama sees this dependence as a significant opportunity for import substitution and domestic manufacturing, noting that Africa's population is projected to reach about 2.5 billion by 2050, creating growing demand for essential medicines, chronic disease treatments, vaccines, and biologics.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}