Ghana Affordable Eye Care Chain — Accra & Kumasi, NHIS Pathway Secured

Requirement

Ghana has roughly one ophthalmologist per 500,000 people. The clinical consequence is that conditions which are cheap and routine to treat — cataract above all — go untreated until they cause blindness, in a population where the treatment itself is a short procedure with a high success rate. This investment establishes a chain of affordable private eye care centres, with two sites identified in Accra and Kumasi. The model addresses the shortage by concentrating scarce ophthalmologist time on the work that genuinely requires it, with optometrists and trained technicians handling screening, refraction and routine follow-up — the task-shifting approach that has made high-volume eye care viable in comparable markets. The NHIS reimbursement pathway is secured, which is what makes affordability and commercial viability compatible rather than opposed. National Health Insurance Scheme coverage means the centres can serve patients who could not pay out of pocket while still recognising revenue, and it converts a social case into a business case without requiring subsidy. $800,000-$1.5M is sought — the smallest ticket in this catalogue, and one where clinical throughput design determines returns far more than capital scale.