The Akufo-Addo led administrations plans to construct 88 new district hospitals and six new regional hospitals within a year have come under heavy criticisms with many describing it as impossible.
During his eighth address to the nation on the coronavirus pandemic, President Akufo-Addo made an announcement that "there are 88 districts in our country without district hospitals; we have six new regions without regional hospitals; we do not have five infectious disease control centres dotted across the country, and we do not have enough testing and isolation centres for diseases like COVD-19. We must do something urgently about this”.
Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has explained that the government was planning to construct 22 District Hospitals before the announcement of 88 new hospitals.
“We had also selected to do 22 district hospitals even before the President’s announcement . . . When we got an indication of allocation of the Sinohydro facility that the government was arranging to take, we listed 22 Districts without hospitals to begin construction,” he said.
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has criticised the President for using 'COVID-19 platform' for political gains. They have raised questions on the government's ability to construct the facilities within a year.
According to them, the existing health facilities that the government claim to be constructing started by former President John Mahama and bemoaned the fact that the ruling government has not yet constructed 'even one hospital'.
NPP Bono Regional Chairman, Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye DC speaking on UTV's late news programme queried: "Asiedu Nketia said measures to fight COVID-19 are to rig election 2020, was that not engaging in politics? When the lockdown was lifted they accused the President of doing so to allow the EC to compile a new voters' register. Is that not politics?"
Listen to his full submission in the video below
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NPP are always teeling lairs. please lair cannot win you power this ok. what at all can the anpp UNDER NANA ADDO point at as an acheivement? The free SHS now is dead ONE VILLAGE ONE DAM IS DEAD, ONE MILLION DORLLAR PER CONSTITUENCY IS DEAD AND FORGOTTEN ON ARRIVAL. THE ONLY THING NPP under Nana can be remebered are collapsing of Banks and other jobs, sacking people and putting their relatives in and all the very wicked things.
Did l just hear the Radio Gold extension media house (JoyFM) saying NPP should only focus on CONVID-19 and allow JM and his block-headed NDC to continue spilling untruths? It will be the biggest mistake on the part of NPP to take such evil advice from that Radio Gold extension media house. NPP should devote time to JM lies as well as COVID-19 and all other issues. This is election year and these liars have been let loose. They must be tamed asap!!!.
Another fooooolish and tribalistic ***barred word*** on display.I read the comments and I can say compare Nana Addo to Mahama, Mahama is far better than Nana Addo in my opinion. The projects Mahama did, Nana Addo has not even complete half of it. But history tells me that Ghanaian's do not like projects if they like projects and developments Kwame Nkrumah will be the president for life. The only things they like is promises like 1V1D, 1D1F, 88 hospitals within less than 10 months. Komenda sugar factory is there and Komenda people are using the sugar Cane they grew for the manufacturing of Alcohol, and even if sugar cane is not there why can't we import some from other country to operates the factory for the mean time until our own raw material is available? White people do not grow Cocoa but they import some cocoa beans from Ghana to feed their factory. However, K.E.E.A people vote for NDC always that is why the factory is siting there rotting. However, if it is in Asante region or Akyem, by now the factory will be in operation but people see Akufo Addo as God. Ghanaian's should tell the truth between Mahama and Akufo Addo not in terms of tribalistic manner. I can see all those commenting majorities of them are so called the Akans. I am Akan myself but truth must be told.
Listening to Abronye and the evidence he has in hand, Mr Mahama cannot claim credit for the district hospitals. He inherited these from Late Mills yet he couldn't complete. He is now using lack of funds as an excuse. Strange.
After watching Abronye speak, do the NDC still talk about Mahama hospitals? What marvels me is that anyone who for some reason associates himself/herself with the NDC becomes a blockhead automatically. Where is Franklin Coujoe? A so call think "tanker"??? Reading is a curse anaaa?
So it is true that you guys don't read. There is difference between being governed and managed economically by the IMF and being a member of the IMF. Before 2016, the Mahama government took Ghana to the IMF for policy credibility which resulted in entering into an IMF program which also came with strict conditions. Ghana weaned itself from that program under Akufu Addo. As a member of the IMF, you are obliged to access funds which is in this case, made available to fight COVID-19. So yes Ghana went to the IMF not to enter into any specialized program like what happened under Mahama. Let me assure that your wish for major policies under this government to fail has already hit a snag. Backward thinkers!
@4 more for Nana. Very interesting reading. Did I read your comment saying NO MORE IMF ?? Very pathetic. If you care to know; just 2 months into the coronavirus pandemic, your President & his Vice are seen helplessly lying prostrate before the IMF and the World Bank with a begging bowl in hand requesting for reliefs. Ghana has today become a laughing stock among the committee of nations in the area of economic achievements. Corona has exposed you big time. The shouts of free SHS, 1D1F, 1V1D and 1 student 1 chocolate has vamused. Now it 88 Dist and 6 Reg. Hospitals. It will soon die down. The most confused and use11ess* govt.
Well, National Health Insurance was not going to work; it us working. Free SHS was not possible; it is working. What else will work for Nana and Bawumia by your standards? Nothing. Only Airbus, Ford, Gyeeda, Karpower project, etc etc. Why are you quite about all these? Speak out. Talk. The silence is too loud.
you are wise ABRONYE God bless you
Well we are not going to fly on AIRBUS with INCOMPETENT pilot through DUMSO to IMF again when little babies 👶 with SHARP TEETH 🦷 are on board and land us on WOYOMEY’S backyard. I know there could be FORD EXPEDITION to take us by land but we would have preferred BUS 🚌 BRANDING driven by ATIVOR in the middle of BERKO POWER BRIBERY CRISIS which again indicated DOUBLE SALARY so I now decree like the Jews said never again to ndc. NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU