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The abandoned project of the Government Hospital of Abetifi
Work will resume on the Abetifi Government Hospital project, which has been abandoned for the past four years.
This follows Parliament’s review of the budget allocation.
The Minister of the Eastern Region, Seth Acheampong, ensured the continuation when he visited the Supreme Chief of Kwahu, Nana Daasebre Akuamoah Agyapong II, at his Kwahu-Bene palace in the eastern district of Kwahu last Tuesday.
Mr. Acheampong explained that the reactivation of the project was further proof of the government’s determination to provide infrastructure to help improve health care delivery in the country.
He said the hospital was one of the top priority projects the government wanted to complete soon to improve health care delivery in the Kwahu region.
Development initiatives
The regional minister, also a native of Kwahu, assured that the government was determined to initiate programs and interventions that would benefit the population and encouraged them to support such interventions for their successful implementation.
He indicated that the main Kwahu Bepong-Ntomem highway would soon be built to improve road infrastructure in the traditional area.
Acheampong said the project, which will cover 27 kilometers, will see the road paved for the first time and provide relief to farmers struggling to transport their food crops to major cities, especially during the rainy season.
Unit
Nana Agyapong II welcomed the regional minister and his entourage to the palace and encouraged him to forge a united front with the region’s municipal and district chief executives, as well as other stakeholders, to enable him to fulfill his task. assigned.
The supreme chief urged Acheampong not to turn his back on Kwahuman, but to ensure that they received their share of the national cake and on time.
He regretted that “Kwahuman has nothing to show even though the ministerial post of the Eastern Region is always assigned to his natives.”
The Krontihene of Kwahu-Bene, Nana Simpeh-Wuradu III, welcomed the news that the Abetifi Government Hospital project would be reactivated.
He said it was irrelevant to know which administration started the project because, as citizens of Kwahuman, their main interest was to have the facility completed and put into operation.
Abetifi hospital
The abandoned 120-bed Abetifi Government Hospital project was started in February 2015 by the administration of President John Mahama, but was halted in October 2016.
It sparked many allegations of cost inflation and corruption when President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo took office in 2017 and has not been touched since.
The project, which is 35 percent complete, was part of a series of health facilities funded by the UK government at a cost of US $ 175 million, one of which was the Dodowa government hospital opened in the region. of Greater Accra.
The hospital has “two operating rooms, recovery rooms, male and female surgical ICU, male and female medical room, emergencies and accidents, gynecology, pediatric room, obstetrics and a public health unit.”
Other facilities include a dental unit, pharmacy, dispensary, blood bank, laboratory, doctor’s offices, accommodation for care staff, records office, waiting area and reception.
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