Out of the allocation, GH?16.25 billion, representing 71.25 per cent, is allocated for the compensation of employees, GH?4.51 billion, representing 19.79 per cent, for goods and services, and GH?2.04 billion, representing 8.96 per cent, for capital expenditure.  

In terms of funding sources, the government of Ghana remains the ministry’s major source of funding, contributing 71.40 per cent of the total allocation.

This is followed by the ministry’s internally generated funds, which constitute 26.35 per cent, while donor support in the form of loans and grants combined accounts for 2.25 per cent of the ministry’s total budget for this year.

By sub-programme allocation, the largest share of the ministry’s 2026 budget is allocated to health service delivery, representing 82.10 per cent of the total budget.

Management and administration receives 10.34 per cent of the allocation, while 4.62 per cent is allocated to human resource for development, with 2.94 per cent allocated to health sector regulation.

Projects

With the budget approval, the ministry intends to focus on progressing and completing ongoing projects to attain 100 per cent completion such as the construction and equipping of CHPS compounds/health centres at selected locations across the country, reconstruction of the La General Hospital, Agenda 111 projects, rehabilitation of the Juaboso Hospital and the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital Maternity Block.

Besides, project that will receive approval for commencement include construction of 12 CHPs compounds at selected locations, psychiatric hospital projects, construction of specialist Hospital at Ajumako Bisease, Ho Teaching Hospital redevelopment, construction of a 500-bed paediatric hospital in Accra, construction of Central Medical Stores and construction and completion of district hospitals in Shama, Bole, Bawku, Akatsi and Sandema.

No project will be abandoned 

Ahead of the approval, the Minister of Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, told the House the GH?22.80 billion budget excluded the allocation to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and the Ghana Medical Trust Fund. 

“Mr Speaker, if you add the allocation from the allocation from the NHIS, which is around GH?9.04 billion, and the Ghana Medical Trust Fund, which is about GH?2.259 billion, the total amount of money we are talking about here is around GH?34.22 billion. 

He set the record straight that all the 13,500 nurses who were recruited in 2024 had been paid.

He explained anytime recruitment was done, financial provision must be made for such recruitment.

“Mr Speaker, if you recruit in 2024 for the sake of elections and you do not make any financial provision, it is as good as you have not recruited because what we have said is that we have put 13,500 nurses and midwives on the payroll in 2025,” he said.

The minister again assured that the government would not leave Agenda 111 projects to rot.

“His excellency, the President, has indicated on several occasions that any ongoing project he has inherited will be continued and it will never be abandoned,” he said.

On the issue of patients’ medical records, Mr Akandoh clarified that the ministry had started rolling out another software-the Ghana Health Information Management System- at various teaching hospitals that were rolling out the software from one department to another.

“So, it is never the case that we have left the records missing and therefore records of patients cannot be treated. 

“We have created the exchanges and therefore whenever they get to any facility and they plug in, all the data will be reconstructed and no patient will lose his or her data,” he assured.