By December 2022, the Afari Military Hospital in the Ashanti Region's Atwima-Nwabiagya District will be ready for use.
The physical infrastructure for the 500-bed hospital has been finished, including staff housing and medical buildings, and equipment installation has progressed.
When Chairman of Euroget De-Invest, Dr Said Deraz, paid a working visit to the site to inspect the construction progress, contractors for the project revealed this.
According to them, a comprehensive training program had been implemented to bring workers up to speed on the operation of the latest equipment that would be employed, in preparation for full-scale operation following the formal inauguration. Dr. Deraz acknowledged his delight with the building team's pace and quality of delivery after seeing the facility.
He was accompanied by Euroget's Country Director, Mr Abraham Dwuma Odoom, and the project officer, Tiyuniba Imoro Mahama, and was shown around by the Resident Engineer, Abou Shamaa, and the hospital's Administrator, Captain Agyenim Boateng, who was filling in for the hospital's Commander, Brig. Gen. P. K. Ayibor.
Mr Shamaa is certain that the Afari Military Hospital will become one of the country's top medical centers. The project is one of nine in Ghana that the government has granted to Euroget, an Egyptian investment firm.
Five of the nine hospitals have been finished and turned over to the public. Wa Regional Hospital in the Upper West Region, Ga East Municipal Hospital in Kwabenya in the Greater Accra Region, Ahafo Ano North Municipal Hospital in Tepa in the Ashanti Region, Tain District Hospital in the Bono Region, and Twifo-Atti-Morkwa District Hospital in Twifo Praso in the Central Region are among them.
After the 37 Military Hospital in Accra, the Afari Military Hospital will become Ghana's second military hospital. It will supplement the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital as the Ashanti Region's and the rest of the middle sector's primary referral hospital.
There are 17 specialized clinics, pharmacy units, theatres, labs, a canteen and laundry, as well as a mortuary inside the complex.
It also contains a helipad, medical waste sewage, and water treatment plants, as well as a 54-flat staff housing complex, a gas-generating system, a parking area for over 700 automobiles, and a gas-generating system.
On the 260,000-square-meter project area, there is a six-kilometer internal road network and 40-acre landscape.