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The Minister of Health, 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. This development adds to the ongoing public exchanges between the two officials over the management and performance of the LHIMS project, which was designed to digitise patient records across the country. Earlier, Dr. Okoe Boye asserted that Lightwave is a fully Ghanaian-owned company and that the country’s health data is securely hosted within the Ministry of Health, not in India as some reports had suggested. He further cautioned that the government’s move to transition to a new platform — the Ghana Healthcare Information Management System (GHIMS) — could erode the progress achieved under the LHIMS project. Responding in an interview on Citi Eyewitness News on Thursday, October 30, Mr. Akandoh accused the former minister of deliberately twisting his words to deflect attention from the substantive issues surrounding the troubled 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 said. NHIS System Saga: Lightwave not foreign-owned; Akandoh lied – Okoe-Boye
