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Ministry of Health VisionGhana's Vision
The long-term vision for growth and development in the 1990s was captured in the Ghana Vision 2020 Document that aimed at putting the country in a middle income category. The main priorities of the vision in the medium term were to maximize health and productive lives of Ghanaians, fair distribution of the benefits of development, attainment of national and economic growth rate of 8%, reduction of population growth rate from 3 to 2% and the promotion of science for improved technology as a tool for development. 
MOH Vision
In this direction the Ministry of Health took its inspiration by coming out with a Medium Term Health Strategy (MTHS 1997-2001) that clarifies the priorities for the health sector, the roles of households, communities, NGOs, the private sector, the donor community in financing of health care, as well as regulation of the sector. The MTHS framework and the first five-year Programme of Work 1997-2001 (POW I) were based on five objectives:
- Improving access to health care through removing socio-cultural, economic and physical barriers.
- Improving quality of care through focus on clients, competencies of providers, better working environment and motivation of staff.
- Improving efficiency in delivery of services through decentralization, better planning and budgeting, resource allocation, financial and logistics management, health information management, and use of research as management tool.
- Fostering partnership with other providers through promoting greater collaboration with private sector including NGOs and traditional practitioners, other ministries and departments and local government
- Improve financing of health care delivery through increase government allocation, pooling of donor resources and coordination and better management of internally generated fund.
The Mission of the Ministry of Health was to seek to improve the health status of all people living in Ghana
The end-term review of the MTHS (Health of the Nation Report 2001) acknowledged the significant improvement made within the sector. However some areas that continue to pose problems to the sector are HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB and Guinea Worm. The new Health Sector 5-year Programme of Work 2002-2006 with the theme "Partnerships for Health: Bridging the Inequalities Gap" seeks to address these issues and improve upon various gains made and develop new strategies to tackling the lapses identified.
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