The Minister of Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has announced that the government is putting measures in place to address the "no bed syndrome" in Ghana.

Speaking at the 2026 Ghana Health Service Senior Managers meeting in Accra on Tuesday, June 2, 2026, he disclosed that a digital command centre has been established to monitor bed availability and improve referral among health facilities.

He explained that this system will help to track the beds to know where there beds available or no beds available as well as the many times a patient has spent on a bed in a hospital.

"Recent public concerns about no bed syndrome, delay referrals, patients safety incident and mediculoligal cases remind us that policy must ultimately be judged by the experience of the patients, it is important to inform the senior officers in the sector that a lot of steps have been put in place to deal with this matter.

"We are using the digital health, the I.T system, we have started a command centre at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, where we can have visibility of all beds piloting from Regional Hospital level to the Teaching Hospital level," he stated.

He added that there is a critical care and an emergency centre at the Burma Camp which the president has already instructed for the opening of the facility to the public for use noting that that place will be like a stabilisation center as will be used to stabilise patients and after transferred to other hospitals.

He asserted that there will be a committee that consist with the Chief Executive Officers of the various hospitals in other to see to the smooth running of this system asserting that this is a temporal step and the government is working on having a permanent one as they do not want a situation where a patient will be lost because there is no bed.

"There's a critical care and an emergency centre at the Burma Camp, the president has instructed that we open that facility up to the public, and more or less will be like a stabilisation center, once a patient is stabilized the traffic flows to the other hospitals.

"We will not want to get to a point where they will say because there is no bed, somebody has lost his or her life, apart from that we are looking at the permanent way, this is a temporal measure and a permanent way of having this trauma centre, the president has directed us to expedite action," he said.