Ranking Member on the Health Committee, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has dismissed claims by his predecessor, Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye, that he described the Lightwave Health Information Management System (LHIMS) as a foreign-owned company.
The clarification comes amid growing exchanges between the two officials over the management and performance of the LHIMS project — a system developed to digitise patient records nationwide.
Dr. Okoe Boye had earlier maintained that Lightwave is a fully Ghanaian-owned company, stressing that the nation’s health data is securely hosted within the Ministry of Health and not in India, contrary to circulating reports. He also cautioned that government’s decision to introduce a new platform — the Ghana Healthcare Information Management System (GHIMS) — could undermine the gains made under the LHIMS initiative.
Responding in an interview on Citi FM, Mr. Akandoh accused the former minister of misrepresenting his remarks to divert public attention from the core issues surrounding the digital health platform.
“It is very interesting that Okoe Boye is the spokesperson for Lightwave at this point in time. I have never on this earth stated that Lightwave is not a Ghanaian company.
“So Okoe Boye is setting his own questions and answering them. He should play my voice anywhere that I said that company is not a Ghanaian company,” Mr. Akandoh stated.