Former President John Mahama<\/strong><\/p>\nThe President, Nana Addo Dankwa
\nAkufo-Addo, yesterday commissioned the long-awaited Wa Regional Hospital in the
\nUpper West Region.<\/p>\n
The $52 million 160-bed
\nRegional Hospital was commissioned amid fanfare; the construction spanned over
\n10 years.<\/p>\n
But ahead of the official
\ncommissioning, former President John Mahama had floated a banner claiming
\ncredit for the project.<\/p>\n
In the banner that circulated
\non social media last Thursday, the NDC claimed that the hospital was the legacy
\nof John Mahama.<\/p>\n
However, facts available do not
\nsupport the attempt by the former president to appropriate the credit for the
\nconstruction of the multi-million dollar hospital.<\/p>\n
Rather, the hospital was the
\ninitiative of the erstwhile Kufuor administration under the \u201cGhana Hospital
\nProject\u201d, with the contract awarded by the government in 2008 to an Egyptian
\nfirm, Euroget De-Invest s.a.<\/p>\n
The Ghana hospital project
\ninvolves the design, construction and equipping of 500-bed Military Hospital in
\nKumasi, two regional hospitals in Wa and Kumasi, and six district hospitals
\nacross the country at a total cost of $339 million.<\/p>\n
The project was designed to be
\na turnkey, with the contractors sourcing for funding.<\/p>\n
The district hospitals are the 100-bed
\nMadina District Hospital; the 60-bed Tepa District Hospital; the 60-bed Twifo
\nPraso District Hospital; the 60-bed Konongo District Hospital Project; the
\n60-bed Salaga District Hospital; the 60-bed Nsawkaw District Hospital; and the
\n250-bed Kumasi Sewua Regional Hospital.<\/p>\n
The Kufuor government signed
\nthe memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Euroget s.a. for the construction of
\nthe hospitals in April 2008, gave Cabinet approval for the commencement of the
\nproject on October 29, 2008, with parliamentary approval received on November
\n12, 2008.<\/p>\n
Even though the Egyptian
\ncontractors promised expeditious action, it has taken them over 10 years to
\ndeliver the first hospital blaming the Arab Spring crisis on sourcing funds.<\/p>\n
While working on the project,
\nthe Egyptian owner of Euroget formed another company \u2013 a gold refinery company
\nat the Kotoka Airport enclave \u2013 with a brother of former President Mahama
\nbelieved to be a director.<\/p>\n
The site for the Upper West
\nRegional Hospital was the first to commence construction in August 2010, with
\nthe NDC boasting that it was part of John Mahama\u2019s achievement as captured in
\nthe party\u2019s green book ahead of the 2016 elections.<\/p>\n
According to the contractors,
\nthe Madina Hospital at Kwabenya would be completed by December, while Tepa
\nHospital would be completed and handed over in April 2020, with Nsawkaw
\nHospital to be ready by June 2020.<\/p>\n
The contractors claim the
\nKonongo and Kumasi Sewua hospitals will be completed by November 2020, with the
\nSalaga and Twifo Praso also targeting 2020.<\/p>\n
The Wa Regional hospital is
\nequipped with modern medical equipment, such as X-Ray Machines (stationed &
\nmobile); CT Scan; Mammography; Ultrasound; Operation Theatre fully equipped;
\nMedical Gases; and Patient Monitors<\/p>\n
The facility is also fitted with
\na complete Local Area Network integrated with a Data Centre; Hospital
\nInformation Management Systems (HIMS); Computerized Maintenance Management
\nSystem (CMMS); and Internet Connectivity.<\/p>\n
President Akufo-Addo, who was
\non a two-day visit to the region, described the commissioning of the hospital
\nas a good comment about Ghana.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis project has passed
\nthrough the hands of four successive presidents of Ghana. It was initiated and
\nbegan under the 2nd President of the 4th Republic, His Excellency John Agyekum Kufuor;
\nit was continued by his successor, His Excellency the late John Evans
\nAtta-Mills; and his successor, His Excellency John Dramani Mahama; and it has
\nbeen commissioned by me, the 5th President of the 4th Republic. This is a good
\nstatement about our country, of our institutions, and of our governance,\u201d the
\nPresident said.<\/p>\n
It is this continuity that
\nmakes Ghana an attractive destination for foreign investment and foreign
\ninterest in Ghana, because agreements struck by one government are respected by
\nsuccessive governments, he added.<\/p>\n
He urged the managers of the facility to employ the best practices in making sure that the facilities are maintained.<\/p>\n
By Fortune Alimi<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former President John Mahama The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, yesterday commissioned the long-awaited Wa Regional Hospital in the Upper West Region. The $52 million 160-bed Regional Hospital was commissioned amid fanfare; the construction spanned over 10 years. But ahead of the official commissioning, former President John Mahama had floated a banner claiming credit for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":685274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n
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