President Mahama renews call on African leaders to prioritise healthcare investments

The President said for decades, African Finance Ministers and global investors had made a fundamental error by treating health as a line-item cost—a social expenditure to be funded only when there was budget left over.

By Iddi Yire, GNA Accra, Oct 03, GNA – President John Dramani Mahama has renewed his call on his fellow African leaders to prioritise healthcare investments, to help build health sovereignty and protect economic growth as foreign aid declines.

Touching on the Market Size, President Mahama said under the AfCFTA, an African pharmaceutical plant does not serve a single country of 10 or 30 million people, but served a single, unified market of 1.