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General News on Friday, April 12, 2019
Source: Myjoyonline.com
2019-04-12
The project was launched in 1974
Parliament approved a loan of 155 million euros for the completion and equipment of the maternity and children's block at Komfo Anokye University Hospital.
The estimated cost of the project is 138.50 million euros and will take three years to complete, but Health Minister Kweku Agyeman-Manu badured that due to the delay of more than 40 years, the ministry would collaborate with entrepreneurs to complete it in advance.
The government obtained credit agreements – € 122,543,352.60 and € 32,500,000.00 – from Deutsche Bank AG, London and UK Export Finance (UKEF) for project financing.
The financial package provides a 100% solution to ensure that the project is implemented and completed smoothly and without financial hindrance.
Under the agreement, the establishment of 750 to 800 beds will include pediatrics, gynecology and obstetrics units. It will also have nine theaters, all located on one floor for greater efficiency, and another located on the ground floor for emergencies.
There will be a pharmacy with a dispensary on each floor with high quality equipment.
The facility will also include student conference rooms and badociated facilities, banks, gift shops and offices of the National Health Insurance Plan (NHIS) will also be available.
Once completed, the facility should improve the health of patients, especially mothers, children and babies.
There will be enough space, capacity and equipment to meet the obstetric demands of the area and adjacent spaces.
Context
The government, which is more than 40 years old, has been abandoned by successive governments since the construction of the turf was made in 1974 by the Kutu Acheampong administration.
Until the first lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo, as a result of a Joy News documentary, "Next to Die", was the cause of the construction of a new mother-baby unit for the center. At least four babies would die each day in the crowded old center. .
On a bad day, seven babies would die and pregnant women giving birth had to queue and wait their turn as there were only two operating rooms in the old unit.
The maternity hospital had only eight beds and hospital officials revealed that a hundred women died each year in the country's second-largest reference center.
The new mother and baby unit has brought some relief, but it may not be long.
President Akufo-Addo, knowing this, promised in 2018 to seek funds to carry out the project. He fulfilled his promise.
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