Ghana
Ghana introduced SORMAS in 2019 in the Greater Accra and Upper West regions. As the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in early 2020, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) rapidly expanded SORMAS for its national response, leveraging its digital capabilities to replace paper-based and fragmented reporting systems.
The platform’s COVID-19 module allowed health workers to capture epidemiological data electronically, track cases and contacts, integrate laboratory results into a centralized system, and coordinate response measures with stakeholders at all levels of the public health system, helping overall to improve the timeliness and quality of surveillance data.
Currently, SORMAS is the national disease surveillance and outbreak management system in the country, enabling data capture and processing, facilitating surveillance for all notifiable diseases, supporting real-time decision-making response to outbreaks such as Marburg virus and mpox.
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Implementation Level
National
Implementation in
2019