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The construction of a 100-bed district hospital for the Ashanti Region’s Ejura Sekyeredumase District has officially started thanks to Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia’s groundbreaking ceremony.
The hospital, which is being built as part of the government’s flagship Agenda 111 Projects program, is expected to have cutting-edge equipment, including X-rays, medical gases, a microbiology analyzer, a haematology analyzer, a chemistry analyzer, a CT scanner, and MRI machines. It will also have CT and MRI scanners.
It is also anticipated to include staff housing. The full undertaking is anticipated to take 18 months to complete and cost $16 million.
In brief remarks at the ceremony, held at Ejura on Tuesday, 18th July 2023, Dr Bawumia reiterated Government’s commitment to securing the improved welfare of all persons resident in Ghana, hence the decision, among others, to construct 111 hospitals of varied usage to ensure every district has a hospital and is within reach of a higher-level facility.
“This (Agenda 111) is the biggest investment in hospital infrastructure in Ghana’s history since Independence. We want to ensure that every district in Ghana has a hospital. We have six new regions, so we are also building six new regional hospitals, as well as upgrading the Efia Nkwanta hospital (Western Region). We will also construct two new Psychiatric hospitals, in Kumasi and Tamale,” he stressed.
Dr. Bawumia noted that the government has also implemented a number of programs to improve the delivery of health care and increase access to it, including the One Constituency One Ambulance program, ongoing hospital networking to make it easier to access medical case histories, the drone medical delivery system, and the E-Pharmacy regulations.
“We will continually explore ways to improve our healthcare delivery approaches and systems” he pledged adding, “a healthy nation is a wealthy nation. We all need our strengths to develop Ghana the way we want to”.
Thanking Government for the hospital project, the chief of Ejura, Barima Osei Hwedie II expressed delight at the quantum of projects undertaken in Ejura and its environs in the past six and a half years, “facilitated mainly through the efforts of the Vice President,” and urged his citizens to support national development projects.
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
