The government has made significant investments in the health sector in the Ashanti Region as part of its commitment to guarantee healthy lifestyles for everyone.
Six healthcare facilities are now being built, some of which have already been finished, and the others are in varying stages of progress.
They are the Konongo District Hospital, the Kumawu District Hospital, the Bekwai Municipal Hospital, the over 40-year-old Maternity Block of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), the Afari Military Hospital, the 250-bed Regional Hospital at Sewuah in the Bosomtwe District, and the Bekwai Municipal Hospital.
This was discovered during a recent facility inspection by Gifty Ohene Konadu, the National Coordinator of the Monitoring and Evaluation Secretariat at the Presidency, and her group.
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The team was in the area to keep an eye on and check out some of the ongoing initiatives there. When speaking about the projects, Ms. Konadu expressed the hope that the health facilities will help the economy recover after they were finished.
"This government firmly believes that all projects will be finished. There will be a significant influence on people's lives as a result of this. The government of President Akufo-Addo is dedicated to reforming Ghana via significant development initiatives, which are visible all throughout the nation, she added.
Maternity Block at KATH
The former NDC administration attempted to restart the KATH Maternity Block in 1999 and 2004, but was unsuccessful before leaving power.
President Akufo-Addo turned the sod on Friday, May 15, 2017, for the €155 million project's reactivation after obtaining funds from the Deutsche Bank.
In 2023, the project is anticipated to be finished.
The 750-bed Maternity and Children's Block will be a referral centre for 12 of Ghana's 16 provinces when it is finished. It will feature ten operating rooms as well as diagnostic spaces that are fully furnished with X-ray, ultrasound, and mammogram equipment.
Additionally, the building will have a high dependency unit, an intensive care unit, isolation rooms, student lecture halls, and the ability to cater meals for staff, patients, and students.
Military Hospital with 500 beds
The 500-bed Military Hospital in Afari in the Atwima Nwabiagya District is being built by the Egyptian investment firm Euroget De-Invest, which is already behind schedule.
After the 37 Military Hospital in Accra, it will be the second military hospital in the nation when it is finished, joining KATH as the two referral facilities in the central belt of the nation.
This hospital is one of the nine whose construction was given to an Egyptian construction company.
The hospital should be finished by December of this year, according to the project's resident engineer, Abou Shamaa.
He said that all of the physical infrastructure, such as the staff housing facilities and medical buildings, had been finished, while the equipment installation was already well along.
It features 64 staff housing units, 15 operating rooms, endoscopy operating rooms, a central kitchen and laundry, a 153-body morgue, a parking lot for 600 automobiles and 18 buses, and a mortuary.
Regional Hospital of Sewuah
The former NDC administration began construction on the 250-bed regional hospital at Sewuah in the Bosomtwe District in May 2015, but it was put on hold for more than one and a half years. In an effort to improve healthcare for residents of the Ashanti Region, it was reactivated by the present administration.
According to Project Officer Stephen Owusu Sekyere, the facility was around 99 percent finished. The absence of an access road, dependable electricity, and water sources were the project's only difficulties.