
Ministry of Health (MOH)
The tenets of Act 525 (1996) that established the Ghana Health Service and Teaching Hospitals make the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Divisions therein responsible for policy formulation, resource mobilization, allocation, and monitoring. The GHS as an agency of MOH is charged to implement approved health sector polices in such a manner as to ensure access to priority health interventions and to manage prudently resources available for provision of health services.
The MOH oversees the health sector in Ghana. It provides overall leadership and direction to the health sector and coordinates implementation of the Health Sector Medium Term Development Plan and Programme of Work to ensure achievement of the health sector objectives. The Ministry achieves its aims through policy formulation, standards setting, (acquisition for) resource mobilisation and monitoring and evaluating sector performance.
As a sector agency, the GHS executes the MOH’s policies, submit plans and budgets and periodic returns and performance reports to the MOH. Other means by which the Ministry exercises oversight responsibility over GHS include representation on GHS Council, performance agreements, meetings and reviews, monitoring and evaluations and internal controls.
GHS Council
GHS is governed by a Council, the membership of which is appointed in line with the provisions of the Act (GHS & THs Act, 1996, Act 525) that sets up the Service. The Council under its chairman is responsible for directing and controlling the affairs of GHS.