Mahama’s Hospital Project Listed In Akufo-Addo’s Agenda 111 Hospitals

A hospital project at Antieku in the Ga Central Municipality which has been abandoned for over five years after it was started by the Mahama government in 2016, has suddenly found itself on the list of the 101 hospitals that the Akufo-Addo government says it wants to build.

The two-storey health centre has become a talking point after the Ga Central Municipal Assembly listed it on their website as one of the hospitals being built under the government’s Agenda 111 project.

A post on the Facebook Page of the Ga Central Municipality captures Assembly staff and some contractors officially shaking over a project plan for the hospital which has already been roofed since 2016.

The post on the timeline read, “The Municipal Chief Executive of Ga Central Municipal Assembly and the various Heads of Department met Consulting Teams from INDEGENE and Top International Engineering Ghana Limited on Thursday, 28th April 2022, to formally hand over the proposed site plan for the construction of a 100-Bed patient facility as part of the President’s Agenda 111 initiative.

The Agenda 111 initiative is to ensure that Ghanaians nationwide have access to quality healthcare services and with the National Health Insurance Scheme, boost the provision of healthcare infrastructure and financial accessibility to healthcare and most importantly, accommodation for health workers.

In attendance was Hon. Mohammed Bashiru Kamara, MCE of Ga Central Municipal Assembly along with others including the Consulting Teams from INDEGENE and Top International Engineering Ghana Limited (TIPC) and some Heads of Department from the Municipal Assembly.

Meanwhile, a year ago, the issue of the non-completion of the hospital had become topical and when the MCE was contacted about it he had pleaded for patience and promised to have the hospital completed.

However, he never did, only for the hospital to surface about a year later on the Assembly’s Facebook timeline as a project of the NPP government.

Last year, the national broadsheet, Ghanaian Times, reported on the abandonment of the hospital by the government.

“Construction of the facility dubbed the ‘Ga Central Municipal Hospital’ started in 2016 as part of efforts to bring healthcare services closer to the inhabitants. The edifice, which has been roofed, comprises an outpatient department, Ear Nose and Throat unit, dispensaries, laboratories, theatre, wards, offices for doctors and consulting rooms among others,” the report read.

It is expected to serve over 150,000 people within the municipality, as residents still struggle to access healthcare as the nearest hospital to the municipality was the Amasaman hospital, in the Ga West Municipality,” Times had reported