Abstract: Sustainability in public procurement has become a major topical issue of concern to manycountries of which Ghana is no exception. Public procurement has been mandated to include social,economic and environmental factors in every acquisition of goods, works and services. Therefore, it isimportant to study how sustainable public procurement will be effectively discharged. This study is beingcarried out in the Ghana Health Service in the Ashanti and Central Regions. The study investigates the levelof sustainability awareness and difficulties in public procurement procedures in Ghana’s health sector, aswell as how these obstacles impact its implementation. This study adopted a descriptive research designwith public procurement practitioners as a unit of analysis. The purposive sampling technique was used inthe sample selection to ensure that only staff that were involved in public procurement activities wereincluded and the sample size was 113. Questionnaire was used to gather the data and SPSS software wasused for the analysis. The findings revealed that most of the procurement professional are aware of thesensitivity nature of sustainable procurement. Majority of the procurement practitioners are much aware ofthe inclusion of social, economic and environmental factors in public procurement of goods, works andservices. Rules and guidelines are strictly adhered to as a means to enhance its effective implementation.Some challenges identified could have negative effect on the sustainability procurement in the public healthsector hence steps are needed to address them. The study recommends that further research be conducted tocover other parts of the country to ascertain how sustainable procurement implementation affect acquisitionof goods, works and services.

Keywords: Sustainability, Procurement, Health, Practice, Environmental, Social, Economic