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Some of the structures abandoned in the hospital
The work of the 120-bed district hospital in Fomena in North Adansi district, in the Ashanti region, was abandoned.
The project, located on a 35-acre lot, is part of a $ 175-million contract for the construction of six district hospitals across the country.
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The six hospitals targeted by the loan agreement were to be located in Kumawu, also in the Ashanti region, Sekondi in the western region, Abetifi in the eastern region, Dodowa in the Greater Accra region and Tempane in the region of the Far East.
Fomena Hospital
On August 12, 2014, NMS Infrastructure Limited, a UK project management consortium, signed an agreement to shorten the construction time of the Fomena hospital to execute the contract within a timeframe. five years.
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For Nana Akwasi Yentumi Asante, Adansihene special badistant, and the more than 110,000 residents of Adansi North struggling to access health care, the start of the hospital's work was good news for them.
"There is no hospital in the whole district.
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All we have is the Fomena Health Center and other clinics that can not provide certain health services. People are dying of simple diseases because there is no easy access to quality health care.
Until recently, there was no resident doctor in the entire district and this is disturbing because we need our staff to be able to work, "said Nana Asante.
He added that they hoped that transporting pregnant women by motorbike on roads with potholes to go to health facilities in other districts would now be a thing of the past.
However, nearly five years later, their hopes were disappointed, as the huge building became a white elephant, following the evacuation of NMS Infrastructure Limited from the site two years ago, for lack of funds to continue the project. .
Ugly image
A visit to the facility last Tuesday revealed buildings expected to house different departments of the hospital, including 26 treatment rooms, two operating rooms and their recovery units, an intensive care unit, an accident center and an outpatient department (OPD), engulfed in weeds.
Buildings have become the habitat of rodents and reptiles.
Laboratory, morgue, pediatric and radiology units, as well as maternity, obstetrical and gynecological services, have also been exceeded by weeds.
On the east side of the 35-acre facility is housing for staff of 100 units that has also been left to abandon.
The Daily Graphic team also observed that some walls of buildings had developed cracks, while some of the roofs had been torn off.
The integrity of some facilities, such as air conditioners and oxygen therapy facilities, that had been repaired before the project was abandoned, can not be guaranteed.
But for a security team of volunteers led by Mr. George Agyekum, who had been monitoring the abandoned facilities, the rate of damage and damage to the buildings would have been enormous.
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Chiefs and residents of the district invited President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the Ministry of Health and other stakeholders to urgently facilitate the completion of the project works.
Nana Asante said the abandoned project was a huge investment to improve health care and the local economy.
"The greatest badet of any country is its human resource, but we can not build a strong country with a sick workforce," he said, adding that the population has been suffering for too long and needed help.
DCE
Eric Kwaku Kusi, District General Manager (DCE) of the region, said: "Since I became DCE about two years ago, I wrote letters to the Ministry of Health.
I was directed to Capital Investment and I went there, but it was said that the document had been forwarded to the Ministry of Finance. We are still waiting for financial approval so that work on the project can resume. "
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