Ghana’s newly launched Navala Travel Health has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Africa Medical Tourism Council (AMTC), establishing a partnership to connect international travellers with trusted healthcare providers while strengthening access to Ghana’s growing medical tourism ecosystem.
The agreement was signed on 14 August 2026 at the Tang Palace Hotel in Accra during the official launch of Navala Travel Health. Dr. Fungisai Nota, Founder and CEO of Navala Travel Health, and Dr. Kobby Appiah-Sakyi, President of the Africa Medical Tourism Council, signed the agreement on behalf of their respective organizations.
The partnership brings together Navala’s digital healthcare and travel-support platform with the Council’s network of healthcare institutions and its focus on quality and access within Ghana’s medical tourism sector.
Connecting travel with healthcare
Navala Travel Health is a technology platform designed to give international travellers access to healthcare before and during their journeys.
Its services include telemedicine consultations, access to licensed healthcare providers, medical referrals, emergency coordination and a 24/7 medical concierge service. The platform also coordinates appointments, specialist care, imaging, prescriptions and other healthcare requirements through its provider network.
The company is positioning the service around a simple proposition: travellers should be able to access trusted healthcare without having to navigate an unfamiliar health system on their own.
The MoU with the Africa Medical Tourism Council adds a healthcare-sector partnership to that model, linking Navala’s digital access and coordination capabilities with a network of medical providers in Ghana.
Speaking on the agreement, Dr. Fungisai Nota, Founder and CEO of Navala Travel Health, said:
“This MoU is about making healthcare access part of the travel experience, not an afterthought. Through our partnership with the Africa Medical Tourism Council, we are connecting travellers to trusted healthcare providers while building a coordinated support system that gives people confidence to travel, knowing that quality care is within reach when they need it.”
A quality and access partnership
The Africa Medical Tourism Council brings together major healthcare institutions in Ghana, with Dr. Appiah-Sakyi stating at the launch that the Council currently comprises 10 major hospitals, primarily in Accra, with plans to expand its reach across the country.
The Council’s role extends beyond connecting patients to hospitals. Dr. Appiah-Sakyi said it is also working to establish minimum standards for participating healthcare facilities and help patients identify appropriate specialists and services.
He said this makes the partnership with Navala complementary: the technology platform can help travellers find and access care, while the Council provides a network through which healthcare quality can be assessed and monitored.
“Healthcare access is only meaningful when people can find the right provider, receive quality care and have someone to help them navigate the system. Our partnership with Navala brings together technology, medical expertise and quality assurance to make Ghana’s healthcare offering more accessible to international travellers and strengthen the country’s position in medical tourism,” Dr. Appiah-Sakyi said.
Ghana’s medical tourism proposition
The agreement comes as Ghana continues to attract travellers from across West Africa and members of the diaspora seeking healthcare services.
At the Navala launch, Dr. Appiah-Sakyi described Ghana as an increasingly important healthcare destination within the sub-region, pointing to the country’s healthcare facilities and its pool of Ghanaian medical professionals working both locally and internationally.
He also highlighted the challenge faced by international patients who may know that quality healthcare exists in Ghana but do not necessarily know where to find the right specialist or how to access the appropriate facility.
That gap in information and access is one of the areas the Navala-AMTC partnership is designed to address.
Dr. Appiah-Sakyi noted that the Council is also developing a platform through which people in Ghana can identify specialists and specific procedures, with the intention of establishing a relationship between that service and Navala’s international traveller offering.
Tourism and healthcare intersect
The partnership also reflects the growing overlap between medical tourism and the wider visitor economy.
At the launch, Ablah Dzifa Gomashie, Ghana’s Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, said reliable healthcare forms part of the overall visitor experience and described Navala’s model as aligned with Ghana’s tourism, digitalization and medical tourism ambitions.
“Travelers do not only seek beautiful destinations, they seek safety, assurance, and confidence that their well-being is protected wherever they go.”
The Minister said Navala’s ability to bring together healthcare providers, tourism operators, hotels, airlines and emergency services could contribute to a more coordinated system for international visitors.
She also highlighted the need for affordable accommodation for caregivers accompanying patients who travel to Ghana for extended medical treatment.
The issue is particularly relevant to medical tourism because healthcare travellers frequently do not travel alone. Relatives and caregivers may remain in the destination for weeks or months, creating demand for accommodation and other tourism services alongside healthcare.
Beyond the hospital
The Navala model therefore extends beyond the traditional concept of medical tourism as simply travelling to another country for treatment.
Its intended network covers the period before, during and after a traveller’s healthcare need, including virtual consultations, provider identification, appointment coordination, referrals and emergency assistance.
For Ghana’s tourism industry, that creates potential links between healthcare providers and hotels, airlines, destination-management companies and other tourism businesses.
The partnership also gives the Africa Medical Tourism Council a technology-enabled channel through which international patients can access its participating healthcare network.
At the same time, the Council’s quality-assurance work provides an additional layer to Navala’s provider-access proposition.
Building confidence around destination healthcare
The launch of Navala Travel Health and the signing of the MoU took place against a wider push to improve the country’s tourism offering through stronger collaboration between sectors.
Gomashie said tourism and healthcare should not be treated as separate areas, particularly as Ghana develops its position in medical tourism.
She identified partnerships, capacity building, digital readiness and emergency response as areas requiring continued attention if Ghana is to meet international expectations.
The Minister also cited Ghana’s US$4.34 billion tourism contribution to GDP in 2025 and more than 1.3 million international tourist arrivals as part of the broader context in which tourism infrastructure and visitor services are being developed.
For Navala, the MoU provides a formal basis for connecting its travel-health proposition to Ghana’s medical tourism infrastructure. For the Council, it creates another channel through which international patients and travellers can navigate the country’s healthcare system.
