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By Godfred A. Polkuu, GNA 

Bolgatanga, Nov. 18, GNA – The Association
of Transparency and Accountable Governance (ATAG) has called on government to
permit the newly commissioned 160-bed capacity Upper West Regional hospital in
Wa, to commence operations.

“The hospital if opened to the general
public will carry the health delivery system of the region to another level
with its modern facilities and equipment, ”ATAG said in a statement.

The statement signed by Mr Seidu Jaadi, Lead
Convener of ATAG and copied to the Ghana News Agency in Bolgatanga at the
weekend, said the state-of-the-art facility which cost over $52 million
remained closed to the public after it was commissioned by President Akufo-Addo
in August, 2019.

According to the statement, “The euphoria
that heralded the commissioning of the facility by the people of the region has
vanished into thin air as the people are left disappointed at the closure of
the hospital despite its commissioning.”

“The belief and thinking of the citizenry
were that government was only buying time in its commissioning and working
behind the scene with the project contractor to fix all the necessary equipment
and also hire the needed manpower to ensure the full operations of the facility
after its inauguration,” the statement added.

It said there was an indication that all was
set for the facility to be opened to the public, per statements made by
government officials, and questioned “what then made it impossible for the
facility to be opened to the public, since its commissioning”

The statement said if the facility was
operational, most needless deaths in the Region, especially the recent death
that rocked the Region due to lack of essential medicines or negligence on the
part of staff of a health facility, would have been prevented.

GNA


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