alairdata/Healthcare-Accessibility-Analysis-In-Ghana

# 🏥 Ghana Healthcare Accessibility Analysis --- # TL:DR Ghana has nearly 10,000 healthcare facilities. Most of them can't save your life. Walk into almost any of them and you'll find a single room, one community health worker, and a box of malaria medication. No doctor. No surgery. No ambulance. Have a stroke? Difficult birth? Car accident? You're on your own — and the nearest hospital is, on average, 41 minutes away. On a dirt road. That floods in the rainy season. That no ambulance will attempt at night. For 200,000 Ghanaians, there is no hospital within two hours. By any road. At all. Meanwhile, MPs keep announcing projects. Regulatory bodies keep publishing plans. And nobody has had the data to call them out. Until now. What it is: A comprehensive spatial analysis of healthcare access across all 260 districts and 16 regions of Ghana, built from scratch using 9,978 facilities scraped from the Ghana Health Service platform. The core finding: Ghana looks well-served on paper — 90.7% of the population lives within 30 minutes of a facility. But that facility is almost always a basic CHPS compound staffed by one community health nurse with no surgery, no doctor, no emergency equipment. The moment you need real care, access collapses: Only 46.7% live within 30 minutes of a hospital Mean travel time to the nearest specialist is 117.7 minutes 38 districts have zero hospitals entirely 210,000+ people have no healthcare access within 2 hours by any road The north-south divide: Northern regions (Savannah, Bono East, Oti) struggle to get to care — too few facilities, long distances, mostly dirt roads. Southern regions (Greater Accra, Central, Ashanti) can reach facilities quickly but those facilities are overwhelmed — supply can't meet demand. The composite score: Each district gets three scores: how long the journey takes, what the journey is actually like (dirt roads vs tarmac), and whether there's enough capacity when you arrive. Best district: Bolga East (96.81/100 …