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Afari Military Hospital in the Ashanti Region has 500 beds.
The government has set a deadline of March 2024 for its completion and operationalization. This is a significant development as contractors are starting work again after receiving funding from the government.
The 500-bed Afari Military Hospital will relieve some of the strain on the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), a significant referral center in the Ashanti Region, once it is completed. The people living in the area have always pushed the government to get this vital facility operationalized as soon as possible.
Financial difficulties caused the hospital’s construction to pause for a while, despite the fact that the project is about 90% complete and has vital amenities like the outpatient departments and other theaters ready for use.
Presidential Adviser on Health, Dr. Anthony Nsiah Asare, expresses confidence that the project will be completed and open to the public by March 2024.
During a working visit to the project site on Monday, December 4, 2023, Dr. Nsiah Asare said, “The project was stopped for some time because of clearing some financial issues between the Ministry of Finance, Defense, and the Contractor. Thank God we have been able to solve that, and the Contractor has been resourced to move to the site. Afari hospital, by the first quarter of next year, God willing, nobody will talk about Afari hospital again. When you are moving here, you are moving here for quality healthcare. The progress of work we have seen for the past one week, I am very certain by March this hospital will be finished.”
In order to resume full operations, contractors are currently removing overgrown weeds from the work interruption.
Ahmed Abu Shamaa, the project resident engineer, indicates that the major equipment is prepared for installation.
Abraham Dwomoh Odoom, the country manager for Euroget de-Invest, guarantees that the government will provide the funding necessary to see the project through to completion.
In order to enable contractors to return to the site, he thanked the government and the Ministries of Finance, Defense, and Health for making sure project funding issues were resolved.
The government intends to commission ongoing medical facilities in the Ashanti Region in 2024, according to additional information provided by Dr. Nsiah Asare.
Aside from 50 medical and non-medical buildings, the hospital also has 15 operating rooms, 2 endoscopy rooms, 9 delivery rooms, a mortuary with space for 157 bodies, 64 staff housing units, a medical gas plant that produces medical gases, and a sterilization department.
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
