The Ghanaian Government has announced plans to construct 6 and 88 regional and district hospitals respectively in the country this year to improve healthcare delivery.
President Akufo-Addo having said this was going to be government major investment in the health sector, the new 100 beds capacity district health facilities will begin this year.
“We will, this year, begin constructing eighty-eight hospitals in the districts without hospitals,” the president revealed during his 8th coronavirus national update in Accra yesterday.
According to H.E. Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the 8 districts without hospitals from the Eastern region shall get their share of the facility.
“It means ten in Ashanti region, nine in Volta, nine in Central, eight in Eastern, seven in Greater Accra, seven in Upper East, five in Northern, five in Oti, five in Upper West, five in Bono, four in Western North, four in Western, three in Ahafo, three in Savannah, two in Bono East and two in North East Regions,” President Akufo-Addo noted.
The President assured the hospitals “will be a quality, standard-design, with accommodation for doctors, nurses and other health workers.”
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo who, underscored the need for regional hospital said, construction hospitals for the six new regions will also begin this year as part of his health infrastructure development plan.
“We have also put in place plans for the construction of six new regional hospitals in the six new regions, and the rehabilitation of the Effia Nkwanta Hospital, in Sekondi, which is the regional hospital of the Western Region.”
Government under the leadership of President Akufo-Addo increased the regions of Ghana from 10 to 16 after a successful referendum in 2018.
Following the outcome of the constitutional provision, Savannah, Oti, Bono, Bono East, Western North and North East Regions were creating, increasing the number of regions to 16.
The outbreak of the novel (new) coronavirus according to some Ghanaians, has exposed the country about it poor health system.
Government seemed to have taken this assertion in good faith following it comment, “we are going to beef up our existing laboratories, and establish new ones across every region for testing. We will establish three infectious disease control centres for each of the zones of our country, i.e. Coastal, Middle Belt and Northern, with the overall objective of setting up a Ghana Centre for Disease Control.”
Ghana’s Covid-19 confirmed cases stand at 1, 550 with 11 deaths and 155 recoveries after a total test of 100, 622 samples.
While 6 of the cases are critical, the remaining 1, 378 have mild or show no symptoms, and are responding to treatment.
Source: ritefmonline.org
