Gov’t won't abandon uncompleted health facilities – Spokesperson

Government’s spokesperson on infrastructure, Richard Asante Yeboah, has refuted claims that government will abandon health projects and construct its proposed 88 hospitals.
The President for the Republic of Ghana Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo in his 8^th Covid-19 update announced his government’s decision to build over 88 hospitals in some districts without hospitals.
According to the President, the project forms part of measures being taken by government to fight the covid-19 pandemic.
“Government has decided to undertake a major investment in our health care infrastructure, the largest in our history.  We will this year begin construction eighty-eight (88) hospitals in district without hospitals… each of them will be a quality, standard design, one hundred bed hospital, with accommodation for doctors, nurses, and other health workers and the intention is to complete them within a year….” Akufo Addo said.
This announcement caused an uproar on social media with some arguing that the President had abandoned uncompleted health projects by the erstwhile government and have instructed the construction of 88 new hospitals.
Speaking to Kaakyire Ofori Ayim on Atinka FM’s AM Drive, Government’s spokesperson on infrastructure, Richard Asante Yeboah said government  is aware of all abandoned health projects and that measures were being put in place to complete them.
Meanwhile Managing Editor for the Insight Newspaper, Kwasi Pratt says although government’s decision to construct 88 hospitals in some 88 districts without hospitals is laudable, the country currently needs PPE’s, test kits, ventilators to save lives in the interim.
“If government had channeled the attention and energy it gave the building of the national Cathedral to our health sector, we wouldn’t be where we are now. China built two big hospitals in 10 days, an emergency measure, that should tell you how crucial the situation is, health care is paramount in this pandemic and if it cannot be done urgently, it can yet. We should concentrate on getting the hospitals who are currently in dire need of PPE’s, ventilators, facemasks, hand gloves, hand sanitizers to enable them save lives. 88 hospitals in a year cannot be counted as an emergency measure,” he said.
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