Information Minister, Hon. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has stated that Government’s fight against the novel coronavirus is possible because of the resilient economy it has in the past few years built.
Speaking at a press briefing on Tuesday, 28th April, 2020, Mr. Nkurmah said Ghana’s ability to introduce the various interventions towards the fight against the virus in the country is largely dependent on the strong and robust economy it has built since the Government assumed office in 2017.
On Sunday, President Nana Akufo-Addo announced a policy objective to construct 88 district hospitals in the districts without government hospitals.
Additionally, he announced that building of the hospitals for the 6 new regions is to commence with dispatch aligned to this new program. A further 3 infectious disease centers are be built in the three belts of the country.
However, subsequent to the President’s address to the Nation, there have been concerns on whether the Government can finance the completion of these hospitals and whether or not the country’s economy is resilient enough to afford the COVID-19 interventions including building these 88 hospitals.
But the Information Minister gave the assurances that “our current economic positioning is a major reason for which we are able to marshal the resources to execute a good number of the interventions we are introducing today.
And moving forward, the state of our economy will be key in our ability to introduce the necessary interventions to win the various battles in this war.”
He explained that “it makes sense why some may question whether or not Ghana can afford all the interventions the President has outlined in the past about 8weeks of the Covid-19 response program. This question is justified because looking at our recent economic position, and the gains made recently as a nation, there is the genuine fear that we may be unable to afford the interventions or may end up overstretched if indeed we push through to execute them all.
“Between Jan 2017 and now, however, Ghana has made major strides in correcting the precarious economic conditions it found itself in. Our Fiscal position has improved and our Macro position has significantly improved. The combined effect of improved fiscal position and improved macro position is what enables us to afford the interventions which are being introduced as part of the COVID-19 response program. We have significantly improved national revenues, trimmed our deficit, and yielded a resilient macro position against which we can finance the intervention programs,” he added.
Source: King Edward Ambrose Washman Addo/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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You call them A brigade of liars and tricksters hmmm. We are in this country when some body said we can do free education the same people you commentaters including your pay master Mahama said where is money it will take Ghana 20yrs before we can implement free SHS .Now free SHS has come to stay you turn round and said you started it and again you said it will colapse the economy and later you said i will review if I come to power. Now Oppong is saying that they will the centers so what is wrong with you people. We are in this country when money was given to Ghana to build EBOLA centers during Ebola outbreak. where is the centers. Don't send unnecesary comment and accused somebody who want to build nation by using our sweat by rather encourage him and monitoring
A brigade of liars
I’m surprised how fast Oppong Nkrumah has leant the craft of tricks and deceits. Ghana has resilient economy? When you borrowed to help Ghanaians with basic necessities but you abandoned us after a shordy distribution of food? Well we will not stand inline to vote for NPP again
Oppong Nkrumah is campaigning for Ghanians to stay home , meanwhile your government has stop providing food for the vulnerables . I want to believe this government is now doing a lot of politics than helping to fight the pendemic . God will punish you if you use the covid 19 fund and the one billion dollers for campaign .
May God save this nation from ungodly rulers and confidence tricksters such as Opong Nkrumah who disguise themselves as politician and ministers.