Lightwave Health Solutions Limited has accused the Ministry of Health of deliberately engaging a competing company to serve as a monitoring team to verify work the company has executed in public hospitals.

According to Lightwave, the Health Minister who had previously served as the Ranking Member on Parliament’s Select Committee on Health never raised any concerns about the company’s work or deliverables during his time in opposition. Instead, he reportedly approved the eHealth budget “with pleasure.”

The company alleges that in 2024, after the Minister and his colleagues approved the eHealth allocation in the NHIA budget, an amount of GH¢10.45 million was deducted without Lightwave’s consent and paid directly by the NHIA to a company referred to as “Company X.”

Lightwave claims the company has two subsidiaries and maintains a “very close affiliation” with the Health Minister and his partner.

The company notes that to date, the monitoring report for which Company X received the GH¢10.45 million has not been released, despite multiple official requests submitted by Lightwave’s legal team under the Right to Information Act.

“The public and Lightwave deserve to know how this GH¢10.45 million of taxpayers’ money was disbursed,” the company said.

Lightwave further alleges that in July 2025, the Health Minister once again engaged the same Company X to audit Lightwave’s work. The company says it possesses copies of letters issued to health facilities instructing them to cooperate with the audit.

According to Lightwave, no such letters were ever issued in 2024 when Company X conducted the earlier monitoring exercise, for which no report has been shared with former Health Minister Dr. Bernard Okoe-Boye or any other official.

The company questions why, if the 2024 monitoring findings were negative, the Minister did not act on them at the time. It further demands that the public be told whether Company X is certified to conduct audits for which it received GH¢10.45 million.

Lightwave adds that the Minister has again refused to release the latest audit report to the company, despite multiple requests from management and its legal representatives.

The Project Coordinator for Lightwave, Eric Adjei, confirmed that the Ministry had tasked a competitor to visit public hospitals with what he described as a “fault-finding questionnaire” designed to discredit the company.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health has accused Lightwave of failing to meet the terms of a US$100 million contract to connect 950 health facilities nationwide to the Lightwave Health Information Management System (LHIMS).

But Lightwave insists the Ministry’s own civil servants have explained to him that the remaining 500 unconnected facilities represent just 17% of the project.

This clarification, Lightwave says, was repeated during the only meeting the company has had with the Minister at the Ministry of Health conference room.

The meeting, which included the Minister’s personal attorney, MOH legal counsel, MOH and GHS officials, and two National Security directors, reportedly caught Lightwave off guard.

“We were not informed there would be attorneys present, so we could have also attended with our attorney,” Adjei stated.

“I have a recording of the meeting and will share it later. I say this because this matter is likely to end up at the International Court of Arbitration soon.”

Adjei further clarified that Lightwave has not shut down any of its systems.

“As we speak now, we did not shut down any of our systems. Some public health facilities are fully operational using our platform,” he added.

Lightwave maintains that the Ministry has refused to engage the company despite its willingness to continue the project.

“The last meeting we had with the Ministry was in September this year, and till today, the Ministry has not gotten back to us. They only sent a proposal, we responded, and that was it—nothing again,” Adjei said.

He added that the company’s attorneys have requested arbitration in accordance with the contract’s dispute resolution clause, but the Ministry has only responded after nearly two weeks to say the request has been forwarded to the Attorney-General’s office despite both the AG’s office and the Office of the President being copied in the original correspondence and subsequent reminders.

Lightwave E-Healthcare is the company behind the Lightwave Health Information System (LHIS), an electronic platform for managing patient records across health facilities nationwide.

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