Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, the Minister of Health, stated that the government will follow the Attorney-General’s recommendations in order to recoup damages from the vendor who was in charge of the unsuccessful national health information system contract.
He stated that all legal and security issues pertaining to the contract’s expiration had been forwarded to the Attorney General for examination and additional guidance.
“The issues of legality and security have been referred to the Attorney-General for advice and appropriate action. The Attorney-General’s advice will guide us and help us retrieve whatever we need to retrieve from the vendor,”Mr. Akandoh stated during a press briefing held in Accra on Wednesday, October 29, 2025, as part of the Government Accountability Series.
The Lightwave Health Information Management System (LHIMS), which was part of the contract in question, was designed to connect public health facilities under a single digital platform.
Only 450 of the 950 targeted facilities had been connected by December 2024, despite the vendor having earned almost $77 million, or more than 70% of the whole contract amount.
Later, a forensic investigation found hardware deficiencies worth at least 18 million dollars.
After the contract ended, the vendor also declined to give the government access rights and system data.
Since then, the Ministry has restored almost 15 million patient records that were impacted by the system outage, according to Mr. Akandoh.
He clarified that information obtained from the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) was used to make the recovery.
“Because all the claims were made to the National Health Insurance, we went to the NHIA database and reconstructed the data,” he said.
“As I speak to you now, we have rebuilt not less than 14 to 15 million records, and about 71 to 72 million patient visits have been captured.”
The Minister said that measures had been put in place to stop a repeat and that the reconstructed data was now secure.
Mr. Akandoh went on to say that the Ministry was trying to create a more dependable, state-run health information system and was taking lessons from the experience.
He declared, “We are learning from our experiences and building on our mistakes. We do not intend to find ourselves in this situation again.”
Source: newsthemegh.com