BBC Focus on Africa, 3rd December 2008
All week our team on the ground has been identifying the issues that voters are most concerned about ahead of Ghana's general elections on Sunday that will put in place a new president and parliament.
Healthcare is an election issue.
A national scheme is in place that everyone who earns a salary pays into but those who use state hospitals still have to pay a top up fee.
The main political parties are debating how to make it more affordable and more available.
Uduak Amimo went to a hospital in Cape Coast in Central Region to find out how it the system works.
The Medical Superintendant of the Metropolitan Hospital Dr Dzifa Damanya took her around.