Akufo-Addo cuts Sod for Construction of €70 Million Eastern Regional Hospital

President Nana Akufo-Addo has today, July 22, cut sod for the construction of a 600-bed Eastern Regional Hospital.

According to President Akufo-Addo, the construction of the Hospital will cost about €70 million.

 “Phase One of this new hospital project will involve the construction of a two hundred and eighty-five (285) bed facility, out of the total capacity of six hundred (600) beds. Once fully completed, it will be fitted with the requisite teaching and learning facilities, and will position the Eastern Region on the right side of the healthcare map of our country,” the President said.

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The President had in his eighth address to the nation on Sunday, April 26, 2020 promised to build 88 district hospitals and 6 regional hospitals to boost healthcare delivery in the country.

“There are 88) districts in our country without district hospitals; we have six (6) 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. That is why Government has decided to undertake a major investment in our healthcare infrastructure, the largest in our history. We will, this year, begin constructing 88 hospitals in the districts without hospitals.

 “Each of them will be a quality, standard-design, one hundred bed hospital, with accommodation for doctors, nurses and other health workers, and the intention is to complete them within a year. We have also put in place plans for the construction of six new regional hospitals in the six new regions, and the rehabilitation of the Effia Nkwanta Hospital, in Sekondi, which is the regional hospital of the Western Region.”