Senior Project Manager at Lightwave E-Healthcare Solutions, Eric Agyei, has refuted claims by the Minister of Health that the company’s data servers for the National E-Healthcare System are hosted in India.
Speaking on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen show, Mr. Agyei described the allegation as “completely false.”
He explained that all data infrastructure for the system is based in Ghana, specifically on the first floor of the Ministry of Health in Accra.
“Our system has been operational for over nine years, from the first phase till now. The claim that our data backend is in India is false. It is at the Ministry of Health’s server room. Every hospital has its own server, and the backup for all facilities is stored at the Ministry,” he clarified.
Mr. Agyei stressed that Lightwave is the only company whose source code and data are fully hosted within Ghana’s health sector, ensuring data sovereignty and security.
He also dismissed reports that the company shut down its systems to pressure the government, explaining that any temporary disruptions were the result of facility-level issues and not actions by Lightwave.
“The claim that we shut down the system to hold government to ransom is untrue. It was the health facilities that went offline due to their own issues with the Ministry,” he said.
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