"Complete Mahama’s Abandoned Hospitals before Building New Ones" – Minority

The Ranking Member on Parliament’s Health Committee, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh has called on the Akufo-Addo government to focus on completing abandoned hospital projects of erstwhile governments instead of starting new ones.

According to him, such an approach is feasible compared to the promise of completing over 90 hospital projects in a year with a non-existent source of fund.

The President of Ghana in his eighth address to the nation on COVID-19 announced plans to build new 88 hospitals in districts without such facilities across the country as well as hospitals for the newly created regions.

Addressing the press in Parliament, the Juabeso MP called on government to focus on winning the fight against the pandemic instead of repeating unfulfilled political promises.

“Yesterday I heard the President say that he is going to construct 88 hospitals within one year. There are a lot of questions and I must assure the president that, gone were days that he could throw anything at us and it will not be subjected to proper scrutiny. I believe that now Ghanaians will not allow him to do such things because first and foremost that money isn’t in the 2020 budget and it has no provision in same.”

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“I believe that we have a lot of infrastructure in place with some as near as 80 percent complete and those investments, the money is for the people of this country and if anything at all, he ensures those ones are completed and put to full use. We see his utterances as political campaign messages,” the MP added.

Meanwhile, in reaction to complaints about abandoned health projects, Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has said such hospital projects started by the erstwhile Mahama administration have not been abandoned but are being worked on.