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Former Director General of the Ghana Health Service(GHS) and now presidential adviser on Health, Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare has disclosed that government is currently working to complete all hospital projects begun under the erstwhile Mahama administration.

He says though government has completed some of the projects, majority are still under construction as funds have already been secured for the projects.

Speaking on Okay FM's 'Ade Akye Abia' programme, he explained that though government is fulfilling its promise of building 111 hospitals across the country to help improve the country's health infrastructure, other health facilities that were initiated under the Mahama administration will not be abandoned.

"I find it amusing when some people tell us to complete abandoned hospital projects. I believe those people are ignorantly speaking and that they have not gone round to crosscheck themselves what the NPP government is doing about these projects."

"The unfinished hospitals largely remain work in progress and we will give an update on where we picked them from and how far we have come with them."

"There are some that we have finished and opened up, some are near completion and some have gotten into financial and contracting difficulties because of some issues associated with them," he said.

He further noted that they will also give dates on when those in progress will be finished.

"The fact that they are uncompleted does not mean they are abandoned, it is work in progress, it will be finished by a particular time,” he noted.

“Some of these projects were even started during former President John Agyekum Kufuor’s time and it wasn’t completed in the 8 years not because the government was wicked and sort to abandon them, but the module financing around them is the problem, but funds have been secured to complete most of these projects," he added.

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