Ghana has been selected as the first country to benefit from France’s National Health Platform, a landmark health compact designed to strengthen healthcare systems, in a major announcement made by French President Emmanuel Macron during high-level talks with President John Dramani Mahama at the Élysée Palace in Paris.
The announcement came as part of President Mahama’s one-day official visit to France, where the two leaders sat down for wide-ranging bilateral discussions covering agriculture, infrastructure, artificial intelligence, regional security, and Ghana’s ongoing economic recovery.
The meeting opened on a warm note, with President Macron expressing gratitude to his Ghanaian counterpart for co-chairing the One Health Summit in Lyon. He also singled out the Accra Reset Initiative for recognition, describing it as significant and acknowledging the prominence it had gained during the summit.
President Mahama, in turn, welcomed the new health partnership and said he was honoured to have been invited to co-chair the summit, underscoring its importance to the World Health Organisation. He added that the Accra Reset Initiative had already produced tangible outcomes that could serve as a foundation for further progress.
Beyond health, the two presidents explored ways to deepen cooperation in agriculture to boost food security and enable year-round farming. Talks also touched on support for maternal health, artificial intelligence development, and the long-anticipated construction of the Accra-Kumasi expressway, a project with significant implications for Ghana’s infrastructure landscape.
The leaders additionally reviewed ongoing development support being channelled through the Agence Française de Développement, France’s development finance institution.
President Mahama used the occasion to express Ghana’s gratitude to both France and China for their roles in supporting the country’s debt restructuring process, pointing to encouraging signs of economic recovery on the horizon.
As the talks drew to a close, both presidents reaffirmed the enduring ties between Ghana and France, a relationship anchored in shared values of democracy, peace, and a rules-based international order, while also exchanging views on pressing regional and global security concerns.
Source: Apexnewsgh.com