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President Akufo-Addo described the Agenda 111 initiative as the largest investment the country has ever made in the health sector.
He said he was happy that this project was taking place during his tenure.
Speaking at the turf cutting in the Ashanti region on Tuesday, August 17, he said, “I am happy that the biggest investment ever in the country’s health care has been made. 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 revealed the shortcomings of our health system due to the years underinvestment and neglect. ”
Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman-Manu told the event that the surest way for the government to improve the delivery of health care to the people 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 the health system by providing new infrastructure or simply improving the existing ones 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 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 of them from the beginning. 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. The main project itself has its consultant for each of the 111 sites, as is the case with every construction project, you need the consultant and the contractors working there, they did that too. 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 indicated that work will soon begin 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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