The government of Nana Addo will go down in history as the government that made the biggest investment in HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT in the ASHANTI REGION since independence. Presently, there are 36 health infrastructure ongoing in the region.
While some of these projects were inherited from as far as the Acheampong regime of the 1970s and Kufour’s administration in the 2000s, the Nana Addo government has initiated 19 new health projects in addition to ensuring the completion of all inherited health projects in the region.
These 36 projects are exclusive of the innovative and collaborative effort between the Ashanti King and the government through the Chief Executive Office of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) to renovate some parts of KATH.
This is unprecedented especially when the recent past NDC government cannot boost of a single hospital it initiated, completed and commissioned for use in the Ashanti Region from 2009 to 2016. Not a single inherited health project from the Kufour NPP regime was completed in the region. Out of the 36, only 2 (Fomena and Kumawu district hospitals) were initiated by the NDC from 2009 to 2016 but left them at completion rates 37 and 42 percent respectively. The Fomena district hospital is currently completed and the Kumawu district hospital is near completion.
Below, a list of the hospitals with their respective categorisation provided below:
CATEGORY A: AGENDA 111 PROJECTS ONGOING
1. Trede, Atwima Kwanwonma District
2. Kokoben, Oforikrom District
3. Boamang, Afigya Kwabre North District
4. Nsuta Sekyere Central District
5. Manso Adubia, Amansie South District
6. Mankranso, Ahafo Ano South West District
7. KWabenakwa, Obuasi East District
8. Barekese, Atwima Nwabiagya North District
9. Kodie, Afigya Kwabre South
10. Asiwa, Bosome Freho District
11. Akrofuom, Adansi Akrofuom District
12. Adugyama, Ahafo Ano South East District
13. Adansi Asokwa, Adansi Asokwa District
14. Asokore Mampong, Asokore Mampong District
15. Bantama, Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly
16. Nyinahin, Atwima Mponua District
17. Psychiatric Hospital, Onwe, Ejisu Municipal
18. Wadie Dumakase, Kwabre East District
19. Ejura, Ejura Sekyeredumasi
CATEGORY B: 5 Projects Under Vamed Project all completed
20.. Manso Nkwanta
21. Twedie
22. Sabronmu
23. Drobonso
24. Suame
CATEGORY C: EUROJET HOSPITAL PROJECTS STARTED BY NPP UNDER J.A. KUFFOUR
25. Tepa District Hospital – Completed & Commissioned
26. Konongo District Hospital – Completed & Commissioned
27. 250 Beds Ashanti Regional Hospital in Sewua. Completed yet to be commissioned
28. 500 Beds Millitary Hospital at Afari – Near Completion
CATEGORY D
29. Maternal and Children’s Block at Komfo Anokye – Ongoing
30. Trauma Hospital At Obuasi – Ongoing
31. Comprehensive Treatment and Quarantine facility at Sewua – completed
32. Treatment and Quarantine facility at Kumasi South Hospital, Chirapatre – completed
33. Patasi Police Hospital- completed
CATEGORY E: INHERITED HOSPITAL PROJECTS FROM NDC UNDER NMSI
34. Fomena District Hospital – Completed
35. Kumawu District Hospital – Near Completion
CATEGORY F: AfDB FUNDING UNDER PRESIDENT KUFFOUR
36. Bekwai Municipal Hospital initiated by President Kuffour in 2004 – completed (Ellipse Projects S.A.S, funded through a loan from UKEF / Deutsche Bank in 2019).
With a critical voter population and the increasing cosmopolitan nature of the region, health infrastructure plays a key role in accounting for the successes and failures of any government. Per the facts as presented, NDC pales in Ashanti Region when health infrastructure is mentioned.
Kudos to the NPP for this massive investment in the Ashanti Region. Like Oliver Twist, we ask for more.
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Note: Thanks to Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare for providing useful information on these projects. Thanks to the Ashanti Army Crew for the excellent support you provided in visiting and verifying all these projects in pictures and videos in the past weeks.
By Keskine Owusu Poku, Ph.D. & Jimmy Boachie-Ansah
