President Akufo-Addo has revealed that Under the Agenda 111 project, his government is constructing sixteen (16) district hospitals in the Ashanti Region.
He said beneficiaries are Trede, Kokoben, Boamang, NsutaSekyere, Manso Adubia, Mankranso, Kwabenakwa, Barekese, Kodie, Asiwa, Akrofuom, Adugyama, Adansi Asokwa, AsokoreMampong, Bantama and Nyinahin, in addition to the construction of a psychiatric hospital in Onwe, in the EjisuMunicipality.
Addressing the chiefs and people of Konongo at the commissioning of the 60-bed Asante Akim Municipal Hospital on Sunday, 16th October 2022, as part of his 4-day working visit of the Ashanti Region, President Akufo-Addo, indicated that he is talking about real hospital facilities and not CHPS compounds or health centres.
Nana Akufo-Addo pointed out that his administration since assuming office in 2017, has commenced the construction of about thirty-two (32) hospital projects in the Ashanti Region alone which are at various stages of completion.
He added that there are five (5) hospitals being constructed by VAMED Engineering in Manso Nkwanta, Twedie, Sabronum, Drobonso and Suame.
As I indicated earlier, the two hundred and fifty bed Ashanti Regional Hospital in Sewua, and the five hundred bed Military Hospital at Afari will be commissioned and completed next year,” President Akufo-Addo said.
“Again, under Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the construction of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital Maternity and Children’s Block, which had stalled for forty-one (41) years, have been duly reactivated, and work is progressing steadily.
We are also completing two district hospital projects in Fomenaand Kumawu, which were inherited from the predecessor Government” he added.
Day 2 of the tour will begin with a radio interview on Otec FM and the commissioning of a residential complex for Appeals Court Judges at Nhyiaeso. He will depart to inspect Kejetia/Central Market Phase II Project, the Maternal and Children’s Block Project at KATH and the commissioning of the ECG KATH 33/11kv Primary Sub-station all in the Subinconstituency. He will attend a durbar of Chiefs at Toase where he will join them to commission the Toase Magistrate Court in the Atwima Nwabiagya South Constituency.
President Akufo-Addo will begin Day 3 of the tour with a meeting with REGSEC and Security Officers at the Headquarters of the Central Command (IDRIS Barracks), followed by a sod cut for the commencement of work on the Suame Interchange. He will proceed to the Nsuta-Kwamang-Beposo constituency to commission a 1D1F Maize Processing Factory and inspect an Agenda 111 project at Nsuta. The President will later attend the Launch and Roll-Out of the New NPP Membership Cards at the Prempeh Assembly Hall in Kumasi.
The final day of the tour will begin with an inspection of the Santasi-Apire road, an Agenda 111 factory at Trede in the Atwima Kwanwoma constituency, the Anwiankwanta-ObuasiRoad Project and the Trauma and Accident Hospital at Obuasi. He will attend the final passage rites of Nana Nyarko Aboraa II, Manso Nkwantahemaa, to end the four-day tour of the region.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Kofi Atakora
