President John Dramani Mahama says Ghana has secured land and developed infrastructure for a dedicated pharmaceutical industrial park as the country seeks to attract global investors and become a major pharmaceutical manufacturing hub in Africa.
Speaking at Jubilee House during a courtesy call by the Western North Regional House of Chiefs, led by Ɔgyeahɔhoɔ Nana Yaw Gyebi II, Paramount Chief of the Sefwi Anhwiaso Traditional Area and President of the National House of Chiefs, President Mahama said the facility would be equipped with the infrastructure needed to support pharmaceutical companies.
He disclosed that the government had secured land and provided roads, electricity and water to attract major healthcare investors, including US-based Arriva and Egypt’s FAKO.
The President said Arriva, which he met during a visit to New York, was expected to visit Ghana in November to assess the proposed pharmaceutical hub.
“We want Ghana to become a hub for producing pharmaceuticals, not only for West Africa but for the whole of Africa. Investors are already willing to come,” he said.
“When I was in New York, I met a company called Arriva, and they are coming in November to look at our pharmaceutical hub. We have acquired land for a pharmaceutical hub where anybody who wants to establish a pharmaceutical company can do so. We have constructed the roads and provided electricity, water and everything else required.”
President Mahama said the initiative aligned with the government’s Accra Reset framework, which seeks to strengthen Africa’s health sovereignty by expanding local production of vaccines and essential medicines. The push for domestic manufacturing follows lessons from global health crises, which exposed the risks of relying heavily on external suppliers for critical medical products.
The pharmaceutical hub is also expected to form part of the government’s proposed $10 billion New Economy Policy, which will commit $2 billion annually over five years to nine priority sectors identified for their job-creation potential.
The policy is expected to cover areas including pharmaceuticals, textiles, commercial oil palm cultivation across 100,000 hectares, and rubber production. According to the government’s plan, the investments will be financed without recourse to foreign or commercial bank borrowing.
