📌 Medical Innovation Expo 2025

New Paradigms in Healthcare Technology

Academic City University,
Accra, Ghana
October 13–15, 2025

Statement of Purpose

The Ghana Medical Innovation EXPO will feature cutting edge innovations in medical instrument design being developed by entrepreneurial teams across West Africa. The many projects to be displayed will demonstrate novel approaches to designing tools for use in challenging environments with limited infrastructural support. These tools represent not just a new frontier for improving health care delivery in the Region. They represent a pioneering approach to medical delivery design that will ultimately impact all markets.

Cost of medical care is rising at an unsustainable rate. A major contributor is the cost of medical instruments and devices that are over-engineered, unnecessarily complex to operate, and increasingly expensive to maintain and repair. While these may remain the drivers of medical care in elite facilities, their cost will increasingly preclude widespread distribution and use in most clinics. This does not mean that compromising quality of care will be inevitable. In many cases the primary medical purpose of existing devices can be achieved for a small fraction of the cost of a current state-of-the-art version.

We believe that future medical devices may arise not from the laboratories of Europe or North America, but from a partnership of those labs with the workshops of Africa where devices are being designed with focus on their primary utility rather than elaborate ancillary functions.

Addressing the challenges of delivery of health care in low resource environments can inform design of a new generation of medical instrumentation improved in efficiency, simpler to use, less expensive to maintain and repair, and capable of providing a high standard of care with lower capital investment in healthcare ecosystems that are facing increasing financial challenges. The Ghana Medical Innovation EXPO will feature instrumentation design that recognizes these needs and reflects those attributes most needed in future clinics that will serve the vast majority of humanity.