A former Minister of Health, Dr Bernard Okoe Boye, has appealed to the Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah, to intervene in the dispute over the termination of a contract between the Ministry of Health and Lightwave Health Information Management System.

In a report by 3news.com on October 29, 2025, Dr Okoe Boye cautioned that failure by the Chief of Staff to step in could result in financial loss to the state.

“I would recommend that the Chief of Staff engages the services of a professional mediation company. I know of Gamey and Gamey. I did some courses with them. Let Gamey and Gamey come in. They can take up the case from both the Ministry of Health and the vendor’s angle and help resolve this amicably,” he said.

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His comments followed a statement made earlier by the current Minister of Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, during the Government Accountability Series, where he disclosed that investigations by the ministry had revealed significant anomalies in the execution of the contract with Lightwave Health Information Management System.

Dr Okoe Boye criticised his successor for failing to handle the termination process in an orderly manner, warning that the approach being taken could lead to the repetition of already completed work and unnecessary expenditure.

“This minister, what he has failed to do is to find a way to orderly terminate the contract. One grave consequence is that when the minister was asked, you have now gone in for someone, and guess what, this new person is not going to complete the rest of the five hundred. He is going to redo the 450 that Lightwave has done. Can you imagine? This is a serious financial loss,” he stated.

He expressed concern that the ministry’s actions could result in wasteful spending, as the government risks paying a new vendor to repeat work already completed by Lightwave.

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“What makes me worried for this country is that we have a minister who is ready to pay a new vendor to start again, work that has already been done, but is unwilling to say that let me give you this money so that you complete this work, so that I can now have access to everything you have. This minister is about to put the government in a serious financial loss situation,” he indicated.

Dr Bernard Okoe Boye further urged the media to scrutinise the issue closely, warning against repeating past mistakes.

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