General News of Sunday, 15 August 2021
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
2021-08-15
Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah
Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah is briefing Ghanaians on government’s recently introduced Agenda 111 initiative in response to district hospitals promised by President Akufo-Addo.
On Tuesday, August 17, 2021 President Akufo-Addo will launch a ceremony to commence the government’s “Agenda 111″ projects at Trede in the Atwima Kwanwoma District of the Ashanti region.
The short ceremony is billed to start at 8:00 am on Tuesday, a circular issued by the Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah to all MPs and MMDCEs in the region.
“Government wants to construct 100-bed capacity district hospitals in all districts without hospitals.”
“The government is putting up 101 hospitals across Ghana and secondly the government is putting up a secondary facility, that is regional hospitals in all the new regions created and a new one at the Western region and convert the Effia Nkwanta Hospital into a metropolitan one,” he is quoted to have said.
Watch a livestream of the presser by the ministry as well as update on the Coronavirus situation in the country: