The 2027 Budget gives health GH¢40.3 billion, with a new Korle-Bu mother and child centre, six regional hospitals, Agenda 111 works and ambulances.

Published 12 Nov 2026, 22:55 GMT

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Korle Bu Teaching Hospital building in Accra — Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra (file photo).

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Health gets GH¢40.3 billion in the 2027 Budget, including GH¢6.8 billion to start building new facilities — a mother and child centre at Korle-Bu, plus six regional hospitals and more.

The full 2027 Budget Statement, presented by Finance Minister Cassiel Ato Forson on Thursday, November 12, lists GH¢10.2 billion for the National Health Insurance Scheme and GH¢2.6 billion for the Ghana Medical Trust Fund, MahamaCares, inside the total.

Korle-Bu and the new hospitals

In 2027, the government intends to build two new heart centres and a 400-bed block for mothers and children at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, the Statement says.

The block belongs to the maternal emergency drive the President launched in September 2026: Presidential Initiative on Maternal Health Emergency Response, themed "No Woman Should Die While Giving Life". The ministry says it will plug into the ambulance service and the Free Primary Healthcare programme.

That GH¢6.8 billion breaks ground on two specialist hospitals, the Korle-Bu centre, two district hospitals and six 160-bed regional hospitals sited in Oti, Western North and Savannah. One district build, Juaboso District Hospital, is already under way and 15 per cent complete.

Another GH¢1 billion completes the Eastern and Western Regional Hospitals, and GH¢1 billion finishes 35 Agenda 111 district hospitals, several of which have stalled. GH¢60 million is set aside to complete the La General Hospital, which the Health Minister said in October should be done by the end of 2027.

Ambulances and mental health

The budget provides GH¢200 million for ambulances. That follows President Mahama's November order for bigger emergency units and 100 new ambulances to end the no-bed syndrome, plus a trial electronic bed management system whose command centre sits at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Ridge.

The National Ambulance Service opened three new stations in the past year and insured 220 ambulances of the existing fleet.

GH¢20 million operationalises the Mental Health Fund, GH¢70 million goes to psychiatric hospitals, GH¢100 million buys childhood and maternal vaccines, and GH¢275 million funds the Obstetrics Emergencies and Maternal and Child Health Project.

The overall spending plan does not break the GH¢6.8 billion down per hospital, and the Statement gives no completion dates for the new buildings.

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2027 Budget: Korle-Bu mother and child centre, new hospitals and GH¢200m for ambulances

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