Ghana to host China-West Africa Medical Summit and Expo

Ghana will host the 2025 China–West Africa Medical and Health Industry Expo and AI Diagnosis Deployment Summit to advance healthcare reform and digitalisation.

Scheduled for August 20–22 at the Accra International Conference Centre, the event will convene over 500 hospitals and clinics, 1,500 merchants and stakeholders, and delegations from 16 ECOWAS member states.

The summit, organised by the Health Community of West Africa Association (HCOWA) and the Ghana Health Service (GHS), will feature more than 100 Chinese medical enterprises.

Professor Samuel Kaba Akoriyea, Director-General of GHS, said the expo aligned with Ghana’s vision to deepen healthcare collaboration and accelerate innovation.

He noted that forums will focus on cancer care, eye care, dialysis treatment, and AI-integrated traditional Chinese medicine.

Prof Akoriyea said the Ghana Health Service would use the expo to seek partnerships aimed at setting up AI-based treatment centres nationwide, while broadening access to surgical tools, pharmaceuticals, and health worker training through public-private collaboration.

The summit will be held under the theme “Focusing on Supply-Demand Cooperation to Promote the Integrated Development of the China-Africa Health Industry.

Mr. Prince Opoku Dogbey, Vice President of HCOWA, said the event will promote advanced medical equipment, AI integration in diagnostics and treatment, and improved healthcare delivery.

“This will be achieved through the provision of advanced medical equipment, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in diagnostics and treatment, and the enhancement of healthcare delivery and patient outcomes across the region,” he said.

Mr. Dogbey said the event would adopt a hybrid format that will combine in-person and virtual participation to foster investment, trade, technology exchange, and academic collaboration.

He said the expo will encourage Chinese enterprises to establish manufacturing plants in Ghana, positioning the country as a regional production and distribution hub.

Madam Enla Fees, Director of Global Health Stakeholder Engagement at Qure.ai, said her organisation is committed to supporting Ghana’s health system.

“We are using AI for X-ray screening to detect the about 50 per cent of Tuberculosis TB cases assumed to be asymptomatic which must not be missed to help in TB elimination in Ghana,” she said.

She said that Qure.ai will help reach underserved patients using frontline AI technology to promote equity and multi-disease screening.

Source: GNA

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