"Mahama’s Hospital Projects Not Abandoned" – Information Minister

The Minister says most of these past projects are still work in progress.

"Mahama’s Hospital Projects Not Abandoned" – Information Minister

Ghana’s Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah says hospital projects started by the erstwhile Mahama administration have not been abandoned by the current government but are rather being worked on.

The minister’s remarks comes as response to assertions that the Akufo-Addo government was wasting resources in constructing 88 new hospitals, whilst several hospital projects started by the former president has been abandoned.

President Nana Akufo-Addo on Sunday, April 26, 2020, during his national address, announced the construction of hospitals in some 88 districts across the country.

He also reiterated the government’s plans of building regional hospitals in the six new regions to boost healthcare delivery in the country.

The move has generated heated discussions on abandonment of past government’s developmental projects.

The Information Minister in an interview with Accra based Citi FM on Monday, April 27, 2020, however said most of these projects are still work in progress.

 

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“The unfinished hospitals largely remain work in progress and we will give an update on where we picked them from and how far we have come with them. There are some that we have finished and opened up, some are near completion and some have gotten into financial and contracting difficulties because of some issues associated with them. We will also give dates on when those in progress will be finished. It is to make the point that, some may be uncompleted still but they are not abandoned, it is work in progress, it will be finished by a particular time.”

“Some of these projects were even started during former President John Agyekum Kufuor’s time and it wasn’t completed in the 8 years not because the government was wicked and sort to abandon them but the module financing around them is the problem,” the Minister said