Product work means owning something end to end — finding the unmet need, deciding what gets built and in what order, coordinating the clinical, regulatory, engineering, and commercial people who all have to agree, and shipping. It covers pharmaceutical portfolios and digital health products alike; the discipline is much the same even when the artefact is a formulation rather than an app.

Most product failures in health are not engineering failures. They are products built by people who never watched the workflow they were trying to replace. A pharmacist has stood on the other side of the counter, has seen where a prescription actually breaks down, and can tell the difference between a problem worth solving and one that only looks like a problem from a slide deck.

Ghana has a real health-tech sector to enter. Accra-founded companies now run pharmacy networks across several African countries on software they built themselves, and that kind of company needs people who understand the pharmacy and the product equally well. Beyond them sit the innovation and portfolio teams inside manufacturers, and the digital health units of donor-funded programmes.