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Ghana: availability of digital health systems

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This dossier follows reported outages and restoration of Ghana’s digital health tools, distinguishing district statistics from hospital patient records. It also covers demands for scrutiny of contracts and payments.

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Accra in June 2008. File photograph; does not depict DHIMS. Elegant Machines, CC BY-SA 3.0, unmodified.
Accra in June 2008. File photograph; does not depict DHIMS. Elegant Machines, CC BY-SA 3.0, unmodified. — Elegant Machines — CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ — 2008, sans modification

Where things stand

As of 6 November 2026, the ministry says DHIMS is restored and GHIMS was unaffected. The parliamentary minority seeks an investigation into the outage and its alleged financial cause.

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Reported information

Ghana’s Health Ministry says DHIMS has been restored

Ghana’s Health Ministry announced on 6 November 2026 that the District Health Information Management System, DHIMS, was fully operational again after an interruption. It said GHIMS, the system used for hospital patient records, had remained unaffected.

Accra in June 2008. File photograph; does not depict DHIMS. Elegant Machines, CC BY-SA 3.0, unmodified.
Accra in June 2008. File photograph; does not depict DHIMS. Elegant Machines, CC BY-SA 3.0, unmodified. — Elegant Machines — CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ — 2008, sans modification

DHIMS is managed by the Ghana Health Service and collects and manages health information at district level. The ministry’s clarification distinguishes that reporting tool from hospital medical-record software.

Earlier that day, the parliamentary minority requested an investigation. It attributed the outage to Akamai suspending ten servers over an unpaid bill of $64,510.95 and said access had been disrupted since 29 October.

Restoration is a ministry announcement reported by MyJoyOnline. The available documents provide neither an independent technical test of the service nor investigative findings on contractual responsibility.

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