The Metropolitan/Municipal/ District Assemblies to benefit from the 88 District Hospitals promised by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo have been directed to liaise with their respective Traditional Authorities.
This is to identify and release land, a minimum of 15 acres, for construction of the facilities to begin.
The process is expected to be completed with all the necessary documentation by 31sth May 2020.
A directive from the Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Hajia Alima Mahama, also urged the various Regional Ministers of the districts to take personal interests in facilitating the smooth take-off of the initiative.
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President Akufo-Addo, in his eighth address to the nation to provide an update on Ghana’s fight against the Coronavirus pandemic on Sunday, April 26th, 2020 stated that new medical facilities are planned for the 88 districts in Ghana currently without hospitals, as well as an additional six regional hospitals.
He said, “There are 88) districts in our country without district hospitals; we have six (6) new regions without regional hospitals; we do not have five infectious disease control centres dotted across the country; and we do not have enough testing and isolation centres for diseases like COVD-19.”
“We must do something urgently about this. That is why Government has decided to undertake a major investment in our healthcare infrastructure, the largest in our history. We will, this year, begin constructing 88 hospitals in the districts without hospitals.”
The standard 100 -bed facilities, which will be in districts without hospitals will also have accommodation for staff.
President Akufo-Addo also reiterated the government’s plans of building regional hospitals in the six new regions to boost healthcare delivery in the country.
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Ashanti (10)
Volta (9)
Eastern (8)
Greater Accra (7)
Upper East (7)
Oti (5)
Upper West (5)
Bono (5)
Western North (5)
Savanna (3)
Bono East (2)
North East (2)
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