The government of Ghana has secured €56,153,500 facility to construct two (2) Trauma Centers at Akyem Anyinam on the Accra-Kumasi highways in the Eastern Region and Obuasi in the Greater Ashanti Region.
The facility will also be used to construct an Emergency Center at the Enyiresi Hospital and the Rehabilitation of the Obuasi Health Centre.
The construction of these important health facilities would help save more lives during fatal accidents on these accident-prone roads.
Road crashes claimed 2,284 lives in 2019, according to the Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD).
This marked a significant increase from 2018 where 2,020 persons died on Ghana’s roads.
It was the highest so far in a decade.
Ghana’s least fatal year for road crashes in the last decade was 2015 where 1,802 people died.
The Greater Accra Region had the most road fatalities in 2019 with 449 recorded followed by the Ashanti Region with 448 deaths and the Eastern Region with 349 deaths.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Obed Ansah
