200 hospitals, one phone call away: Ghana's doctors can now reach each other — and 1.6 million patients feel it

At Ho Teaching Hospital in Ghana's Volta Region, help used to travel slowly. A research partnership with Loughborough University has now connected 200 regional health facilities to one central call centre — up from just 10 in 2024 — and given every member of staff access to the national health information system. Beds, medicines and patient records can be tracked in real time, and care has improved for more than 1.6 million people.