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Thirteen Districts Yet to Offer Lands for 88 Hospitals, Others Have Land Disputes, Finance Ministry Appropriate To Answer Budgetary Questions – Agyeman-Manu

Thirteen Districts Yet to Offer Lands for 88 Hospitals, Others Have Land Disputes, Finance Ministry Appropriate To Answer Budgetary Questions – Agyeman-Manu
The Health Minister-designate of Ghana, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu

The Health Minister-designate of Ghana, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has said Thirteen (13) districts are yet to offer Government lands, locations and site plans for President Akufo-Addo’s promised 88 district hospitals to be built, as his Ministry wrote to and requested of them.

According to him, the hospitals which the President promised would commence in July 2020, but are yet to be  started as of February 2021 have had bottlenecks, though a team was put together by the President to work towards the realization of the promise.

Mr. Kwaku Agyeman-Manu was responding to questions during his vetting by the Appointment Committee in Parliament today.

He said the Finance Ministry has assured the health ministry will make budgetary allocations for the project, adding that contracts have been awarded and sod-cuttings will be done for serious work to commence towards constructing them..

“It was the vision of the President to see those hospitals completed within the promised time, so he set up a committee including all the key stakeholders and we started working. We asked all the districts to give us land for the construction of the hospitals.
As I speak we still have about 13 districts that have not completed the exercise of giving us lands and site plans for the works to be done… others have land disputes that are being resolved” he said.

Speaking in a televised address last year Mr. Akufo-Addo said the new medical facilities are planned for 88 districts in Ghana that are currently without a hospitals.

“Each of them will be a quality, standard design 100-bed hospital with accommodation for doctors, nurses, and other health workers,” President Akufo-Addo had said.

On how much each hospital would cost, he noted that the initial costing was done on the basis of averages which looked at between $5million and $7million per hospital; whiles the number of hospitals has also increased from 88 to 111 to be constructed.

“When the issue of equipment and other logistics came in we were still thinking that the maximum of 7million dollars will do what we should do. If you multiply this by 88 which has even changed to 111(– we are adding on regional hospitals for 6 new regions that do not have regional hospitals, plus the South-West Region, rehabilitating of the Efia-Kwanta Hospital; this together with other places that we left out has brought this number to a total of 111, that is what we are working on at the moment… So we are still computing unfortunately, and at this stage, until exactly how much the total, it will just be an estimate of what I have  said. $5m x 111 minimum, $7m x 111 maximum”, he explained.

He concluded on the matter by stating that on having the figures on budget, the Finance Ministry would be able to speak better to it.

"Mr. Chair, definitely without the budget we can’t utilise the money, and this question I think Finance will make the best input. To the best of my knowledge, there is a provision and Finance has assured Health that they are sourcing and have achieved some portion of resources that will do the work. So, I wouldn’t be the appropriate person to answer this budgetary question”, he swerved. 

 

Source: Yvette Appiah (Journalist, Real Estate Times Africa)

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