Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has asked naysayers to put on a can-do attitude and avoid negative comments as far as Agenda 111 is concerned.
The Agenda 111 initiative, which is aimed at building 111 district hospitals across the country will commence tomorrow, Tuesday, August 17, 2021.
Speaking to Kwami Sefa Kayi in an interview on Peace FM's morning show 'Kokrokoo', he said completing the project will need a collective attitude and not negative comments like "it cannot be done".
"We will need a collective effort to complete these projects . . . we need the can-do spirit; the negative utterances won’t help us," he intimated.
Agenda 111
Kojo Oppong Nkrumah who doubles as the Member of Parliament for Ofoase Ayiribi constituency said the projects will commence concurrently with a commencement funding of US$100m.
He disclosed that government has successfully secured sites and land titles for 88 out of the 101 district hospitals and each unit would cost US$16.88 million including Civil works and equipment, covering 15 acres fit for purpose.
He has urged the contractors to be committed to delivering quality projects and in good time.
"We must have the objective at the back of our mind that this is a collective work," he indicated.
Payment of contractors
Ghana is often bedevilled with the non-payment of road contractors leading to the neglect of some roads.
However, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah says government is committed to paying the contractors.
According to him, the issue of non-payment of contractors in the country can be confronted collectively.
"This issue is not solved by promises, it is a collective effort . . . we have to confront this conversation asking how much have been paid into the road fund . . . we have to stop playing ostrich with our road fund issues and make sure that we’re adequately funding a road fund . . . we need to remove the capping on road funds and increase the amount being paid into it," he added.
Listen to him in the video below
About Agenda 111
Agenda 111 was announced by President Akufo-Addo in April last year.
It includes 101 district hospitals, six regional hospitals in the newly created regions, two specialized hospitals in the middle and northern belts, as well as a regional hospital in the Western Region and renovation of the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital.
The objective of the Project is to significantly deepen the delivery of quality healthcare at the district level, boost access to healthcare services for all citizens towards ensuring the attainment of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal Three.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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This government must take GHANAIANS serious and must begin to be candid and honest to the people of Ghana.The Government is wasting tax payers money to achieve mischievous political propaganda. Why build 111 hospital at age where you do not have FUNDING really available to build all the hospitals and stock them to be operational. A prudent and competent government will concentrate in putting a reasonably no of hospitals ,equip them and make it more operational looking at available funds and future financial streams over the project execution stream/period. I for see government cutting sod simultaneously for all these hospitals. AFTER depleting the seed money, government communicators will resort to telling GHANAIANS, We have done 80%,95%, 95% of completion of the work.This may result in sunk cost. How on earth will the estimated cost of cathedral of usd 100 millions and you expect you can use same amount to build ,stock 111 hospitals and become operational. Check the estimated cost of La Hospitals, Eastern Regional Hospital. The cost of Legon Medical Centre is above 250 million, Ridge Hospital, Maritime hospital.Let the government be candid and tell the citizenry, average cost of the hospital, cost of stocking the hospital ie hospital equipment etc.