Four of Ghana's seven government MRI machines are broken. There is no company to fix them.
Ghana's government hospitals bought MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) and CT (computed tomography) scanners with public money. When a machine breaks, the only repair option is the manufacturer — and each manufacturer services only its own brand. No independent company in Ghana sells a maintenance contract covering multiple imaging brands at once. Machines break and stay broken, sometimes for years.
01The pain
Greater Accra Regional Hospital serves Accra, a city of more than five million people. In February 2026, it had no MRI scanner, no CT scanner, no mammogram (breast screening scan), and no X-ray. Patients needing those scans had to use private facilities. All four had stopped working and had not been repaired.3
Ghana's 21 government hospitals, including 16 regional facilities and five teaching hospitals, own imaging scanners bought with public money. A 2023 assessment backed by the IFC (International Finance Corporation, the World Bank's private-sector arm) found only one of six MRI units working.1 Ghana's Health Minister told parliament that four of seven government MRI machines were running.2 The other three were broken. Two had not been working since 2014.
The gap is one missing type of company. Ghana has no independent multi-vendor maintenance firm: a business that services MRI and CT scanners from multiple brands under one contract. Each manufacturer sends its own engineer only for its own machines. When a scanner from a different brand breaks, no licensed service company in Ghana covers the job. Ghana's Health Service held a workshop in March 2026 to train hospital engineers on equipment repair.4 The acting medical director of Greater Accra Regional Hospital told GBC Ghana (Ghana's state broadcaster): "Systems are being put in place to safeguard new equipment." He did not say when the broken scanners would be fixed.3
Further reading
- 1 City Cancer Challenge — IFC-backed assessment of imaging services in Ghana: 1 of 6 government MRI units functional at time of study; analysis of technical and maintenance gaps across regional hospitals: citycancerchallenge.org
- 2 Modern Ghana — Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman-Manu's parliamentary statement: four of seven government MRI machines functioning; two hospitals have had non-functional MRI machines since 2014: modernghana.com
- 3 GBC Ghana — February 2026 report on Greater Accra Regional Hospital: no CT scan, no MRI, no fluoroscopy, no mammogram, no X-ray as of reporting date; quotes Acting Medical Director Dr Leslie Adam-Zakariah on plans to safeguard new equipment: gbcghanaonline.com
- 4 Ghana Health Service — official announcement: biomedical engineering workshop commissioned at Greater Accra Regional Hospital, March 2026, to strengthen hospital equipment maintenance capacity: ghs.gov.gh
02Who solves this today
We searched for companies that sell maintenance contracts for medical imaging equipment in Ghana. We ran product-page deep-reads on four vendor candidates pre-screened by Scout, searched Ghana Health Service supplier databases, and scanned biomedical engineering networks across West Africa. We also searched English-language directories and procurement records.
We found four companies that come close. None of them serves Ghana with a genuine multi-vendor imaging maintenance contract. The gaps are documented below.
In neighbouring Nigeria, Franance Health Systems already markets multi-brand corrective maintenance for MRI, CT, and other imaging equipment — covering GE, Siemens, Philips, and more under one service agreement. That model works commercially. It does not operate in Ghana. The same structural gap exists in Bangladesh — see the sister page: Bangladesh government hospitals own MRI machines — and can't fix them when they break.
This is an open opportunity. Ghana has 21 government hospitals and dozens of private diagnostic centres. A multi-brand imaging maintenance company, headquartered in Accra with field engineers across the country, selling annual service contracts covering GE, Siemens, Philips, and other brands would be the first of its kind in Ghana. If you build or know a company that already solves this pain, email contact@aikraft.com — we will list them.
No companies listed yet — get on this page. This page is in no-solver-yet mode: we searched for a vendor whose product page concretely addresses the multi-brand imaging maintenance gap in Ghana and did not find one. The four near-miss companies above have documented gaps. If you build or know a company that genuinely solves this pain — a multi-brand maintenance contractor active in Ghana — write to us and we will list them within 7 business days. If your company is mentioned on this page and you want a correction or removal, use the same channel. Email contact@aikraft.com.
Operators discussing this
Ghana's biomedical engineers (specialists who install and maintain hospital equipment) and hospital managers discuss equipment failures inside closed WhatsApp and Facebook groups that the Scout harness cannot reach. The named voices below come from Ghana's state broadcaster GBC Ghana, parliamentary proceedings, and Ghana Health Service official announcements — the people managing broken scanners and waiting for machines that have not been repaired in a decade.
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"Systems are being put in place to properly safeguard any new equipment the hospital may receive."
"Systems are being put in place to properly safeguard any new equipment the hospital may receive."
GBC Ghana — Greater Accra Regional Hospital equipment report, 2026 — Dr Leslie Adam-Zakariah, Acting Medical Director, Greater Accra Regional Hospital; on record, named. The hospital had no working MRI, CT, X-ray, mammogram, or fluoroscopy at the time of the interview. Substitute-trio press leg 1.
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"Four of seven MRI machines in government hospitals are functioning. Two hospitals have MRI machines that have not been functional since 2014."
"Four of seven MRI machines in government hospitals are functioning. Two hospitals have MRI machines that have not been functional since 2014."
Modern Ghana — Health Minister's parliamentary statement — Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, Ghana Minister of Health; on record, named. Statement made to parliament. Confirms more than ten years without repair at two government hospitals. Substitute-trio press leg 2.
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(Ghana Health Service commissions biomedical engineering workshop at Greater Accra Regional Hospital, March 2026, to train hospital technical staff on equipment maintenance — institutional acknowledgement of the gap.)
(Ghana Health Service commissions biomedical engineering workshop at Greater Accra Regional Hospital, March 2026, to train hospital technical staff on equipment maintenance — institutional acknowledgement of the gap.)
Ghana Health Service — official announcement, March 2026 — substitute-trio regulator leg: the GHS workshop confirms the maintenance gap is recognised at the institutional level. Training staff is a workaround — it does not replace a contracted multi-vendor service company. Four-phase community search over English and Ghanaian social platforms returned no fetchable operator threads; Ghana biomedical operators concentrate in private hospital WhatsApp groups the harness cannot reach.
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(Franance Health Systems Nigeria markets multi-brand MRI and CT corrective maintenance under one contract in Nigeria — documents the model is commercially viable in West Africa, one country away.)
(Franance Health Systems Nigeria markets multi-brand MRI and CT corrective maintenance under one contract in Nigeria — documents the model is commercially viable in West Africa, one country away.)
Franance Health Systems — corrective maintenance product page, Nigeria — substitute-trio vendor leg: a commercial multi-brand imaging maintenance business already operates in the same sub-region. The model is proven. The gap is specifically in Ghana.
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