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Regional Minister of Greater Accra, Mr. Henry Quartey
The Agbogbloshie site which was cleared by the regional minister of Grand Henry Quartey, will be used to build one of the hospitals of the Agenda 111 project.
On Friday August 20, the Agenda 111 team joined the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Mr. Henry Quartey, to inspect the site for the start of work.
Commenting on this development in a tweet, a leading member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Gabby Otchere Darko, said: “Today the Agenda 111 team joined the Greater Accra regional minister. to inspect the cleaned up Agbogbloshie site.
“The largest slum in West Africa and an area with major health risk are now becoming a place of healing for the sick! Pay attention to the Ablekuma Central District Hospital in Agbogbloshie! “
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo commissioned the Agenda 111 project on Tuesday August 17th, which will build 111 hospitals across the country.
During the commissioning of the project in Trede in the Ashanti region, the president said among other things that the project will provide 20,000 jobs for health professionals when completed.
He said the health ministry will recruit more doctors, nurses and pharmacists when the project is completed.
He also said that more indirect jobs will also be created by the implementation of the project.
The President further indicated that the Covid-19 pandemic has revealed years of underinvestment in Ghana’s health sector.
To this end, he said his administration is improving investments in the health sector of the economy.
He said: “I am happy that the biggest investment ever in health care in the country has been made. We met this morning because of the devastation of Covid 19 which has affected every country on the planet. For us in Ghana, not only has the pandemic disrupted our daily lives, but it has also exposed the shortcomings of our health system due to years of underinvestment and neglect.
Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman-Manu told the event that the surest way for the government to improve health care delivery is to provide infrastructure.
To this end, he said, the government is committed to providing the necessary health infrastructure.
He said: “As you know, a healthy people guarantees a healthy nation and the government, aware of this fact, has demonstrated to the people its commitment to improving the health status of all residents of the country.
“The surest way to improve health care is to provide new infrastructure or improve those that only exist across the country. “
On Sunday August 15, Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah revealed that an amount of $ 100 million had been budgeted for the Agenda 111 project to provide 88 hospitals across the country.
He said the government had secured 88 sites as part of the construction of new hospitals, adding that title deeds to the plot of land were also secured.
Addressing a press conference in Accra on Sunday August 15, Mr. Oppong Nkrumah, also Member of Parliament of Ofaase Ayirebi, said: “The Agenda 111 project which aims to provide 111 district hospitals will start on Tuesday August 17th. 2021. The project will also ensure the provision of two specialized hospitals, one for the middle belt, one for the north belt. These are the psychiatric hospitals and then the redevelopment of the psychiatric hospital in Accra.
“There will also be the development of six new regional hospitals and an additional regional hospital for the Western region. The district hospital project, you will recall, was first announced in April 2020 by President Akufo-Addo during his 8th Covid-to-the-Nation Update. It is expected that it will take between twelve months to complete each from the starting point. Since this announcement, the project implementation committee chaired by the chief of staff Mrs. Akosua Frema Osei Opare has achieved a number of objectives.
“One, to secure the physical location of 111 sites. Currently, they have secured 88 of those 111 sites. Not only the physical location, but also the securing of title to the plots of land. 88 out of 111 so far, each of these plots is approximately 15 acres.
“They also used the services of consultants. So the main project itself has its consultant for each of the 111 sites, just like every construction project, you need the consultant and the contractors working there, they delivered that as well. They also worked to secure funding and initial funding of $ 100 million was made available to the project through the Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund. For the project itself, it is budgeted at $ 17 million for each of the district, district and specialty hospitals funded by the government of Ghana.
President Nana Akufo-Addo in his eighth Covid-19 Address to the Nation last year announced the construction of hospitals in some 88 districts of the country.
“There are 88) districts in our country without district hospitals; we have six (6) new regions without regional hospitals; we don’t have five infectious disease control centers spread across the country; and we don’t have enough testing and isolation centers for diseases like COVD-19. We need to do something urgently about this. That is why the government has decided to make a major investment in our health care infrastructure, the largest in our history. This year we will start building 88 hospitals in the districts without hospitals, ”he said.
President Akufo-Addo also reiterated the government’s plans to build regional hospitals in the six new regions to boost the delivery of health care in the country.
“Each of them will be a quality, standard design, one hundred bed hospital with accommodations for doctors, nurses and other health workers, and the intention is to complete them within a period of time. a year. We have also put in place plans for the construction of six new regional hospitals in the six new regions, and the rehabilitation of the Effia Nkwanta hospital, in Sekondi, which is the regional hospital for the Western region.
Centers for Infectious Disease Control
In addition, President Akufo-Addo said that work will soon start on three infectious disease control centers for each of the areas of the country to improve Ghana’s detection capabilities for contagious diseases.
“We will strengthen our existing laboratories and establish new ones in each region for testing. We will establish three infectious disease control centers for each of the areas of our country i.e. coastal, middle and northern areas, with the overall objective of establishing a Ghanaian disease control center. The recent and tragic outbreak of CSM, with over 40 deaths, has reaffirmed the need for easy access to such infectious disease control centers, even though in our time no one should die from the disease. “
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