The Parliamentary Select Committee on Health has criticised the health sector allocations in the 2026 Mid-Year Fiscal Policy Review, describing them as lacking fresh interventions to address key challenges facing the sector.
Speaking to Citi News after Finance Minister Dr Cassiel Ato Forson presented the 2026 Mid-Year Budget Review to Parliament, the Member of Parliament for Akyem Oda and a member of the Health Committee, Alexander Akwasi Acquah, said the budget review offered little new for the health sector.
According to him, the statement failed to outline concrete measures to advance stalled health infrastructure projects, particularly the Agenda 111 hospital programme.
“We thought that the mid-year review was going to make provision for working on those facilities, but we had nothing. There is no drive, there is nothing in it,” Mr Acquah said.
He questioned the government’s ability to deliver on its commitments to the Agenda 111 project, noting that the absence of additional funding raises concerns about the programme’s implementation.
“If government promised 10 [Agenda 111 hospitals] at the beginning of the year in the main budget and hasn’t been able to deliver, how do we trust that this is going to be done… especially when the minister didn’t make any provision in the review?” he asked.
Mr Acquah maintained that expanding access to quality healthcare requires sustained investment in health infrastructure and urged the government to make the completion of ongoing projects a priority.
His comments come amid continued debate over funding for the Agenda 111 programme, which was launched to expand access to healthcare through the construction of hospitals across the country.
