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The public is being reassured by Health Minister Dr. Bernard Okoe-Boye that the government would guarantee funding for the prompt completion of the La General Hospital Project.
After a demolition, the project, which had been on hold for years, caused community people to become concerned.
While on a site visit to oversee the advancement of the project, Dr. Okoe-Boye stated that the project, which is currently 20 percent finished, should be finished in the allotted 28 months.
‘’We are committed to make sure that they get the support, the willingness to be on the project and complete it within the 28 months beginning January 2024. So from January to now, we’ve had some number of months going already and it is in my prayer that I’ll be part of the commissioning of this project and all of us should monitor it keenly’’ – Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye said.
January of this year saw the official start of the reconstruction of the destroyed La General Hospital, which was made possible by government funding and the contractor’s release of nine million dollars.
Nevertheless, the domestic debt exchange caused a halt to the facility’s reconstruction.
‘’I was part of the Parliament which looked at a loan facility to build this hospital. But not only this. A lot of loan agreements were hit by the pandemic. Most banks who said I was going to give you money later today still look, because of the global economy we don’t have the support to continue and so, General, just like other projects, suffered some issues.
‘’And that is why for some time the plan that the government had went off route and as individuals; sometimes we put plans on paper, something happens and you have to go back to the drawing board. So after a lot of concerns and efforts, and I must say that there’s been social activism and significant activism also from the community governments decided to find money from its own resources to pay for the national’’ – Dr. Oko Boye stated.
The president and the administration have claimed that the La General Hospital’s outpatient department will be operational by November of this year, but project manager Nii Adadey is unable to verify this.
“If you look at this side there’s some caving in that I want to see, but some of these things will affect that. But we can probably in a month, we can confirm whether or not by the 29th of October you can come for an inspection. I don’t want to see part of the OPD ready whilst orders are coming up Bottom line, if it goes by the roadmap, we know that we have our hospital functioning and all of us will be helping’’ the project manager Nii Adadey said.
The facility, which has 160 beds and is currently 20% completed, will contain a seven-story building on the fourth level specifically for medical staff.
A surgery department, morgue, obstetrics and gynecology department, and diagnostics center are among the other typical elements that it will have.
The 120-bed children’s hospital at Weija was also under inspection by the health minister.
In September of this year, the facility, which is currently 60% completed, is scheduled to be put into use.
Among other things, it has a conference room, a surgical unit, wards, an intensive care unit, and mothers’ hostel.
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
