The President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has revealed that government’s Agenda 111 project will create over 33,900 jobs.
Akufo-Addo said this while delivering the State of the Nations Address on the floor of Parliament on Wednesday March 30th.
He mentioned that the covid-19 pandemic exposed other shortcomings of our country, which have, undoubtedly, contributed to the anxieties that have befallen the nation.
He reiterated that the Agenda 111 was born out of this necessity to address some of these shortcomings.
According to Akufo-Addo, government is undertaking the construction of 111 entities, which comprise standard 100-bed district hospitals for one hundred and one (101) districts without hospitals.
He added that the projects comes with accommodation for the doctors and nurses who will be assigned to the hospitals.
“We are undertaking the construction of 111 entities, which comprise standard 100-bed district hospitals for one hundred and one (101) districts without hospitals, with accommodation for doctors and nurses.
“Agenda 111 is an ambitious project, which must and will be done, and which will create some thirty-three thousand, nine hundred jobs for construction workers, and, on completion, some thirty-four thousand, three hundred jobs for health workers.”
“I have to report that, like all major construction projects, it is evident that the initial schedule we gave for the completion of Agenda 111 was overly ambitious. Identifying suitable sites around the country,” Akufo-Addo said on the floor of Parliament.
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