On the grounds of the Pantang Hospital in the Greater Accra Region, crime, disorder, and overall insecurity appear to have no end in sight.
Inmates and social misfits, including thieves, marijuana users, and squatters, have started to seek refuge at the health centre, which also houses rudimentary schools, other state facilities, and training centres for nurses and midwives.
They terrorise the workers, patients, students, and other visitors to the medical centre every day by trampling the 344 acres of hospital grounds.
Theft and burglary at gunpoint, theft of hospital property, and prostitution are just a few of the unlawfully occupying squatters' organised crimes that can occur right under the noses of police enforcement.
According to information acquired by the Daily Graphic, the hospital administration was collaborating closely with the La Nkwantanang-Madina Municipal Assembly (LaNMMA) to remove any unlawful buildings and criminals from the facility's grounds in order to restore peace and order to the hospital's surrounding neighbourhood.
Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first president, began building the hospital as a Pan-African mental health village to develop specialised mental healthcare for patients in Ghana and elsewhere.
The improvements were not finished architecturally after Dr. Nkrumah's coup. The destiny of the elegantly constructed health clinic, the second mental health facility in the nation after the Accra Psychiatric Hospital, was put in doubt, much like many other buildings and services.
There were 79 structures, including completed and unfinished staff bungalows, medical wards, and administrative blocks, when it was first opened in 1975 under the leadership of the then-head of state, General Ignatius Kutu Acheampong. However, there was no wall to ensure the safety of the people.
This occurrence gave squatters, including criminals and social misfits, free rein to occupy and cause havoc on the hospital's grounds and in the area around it.
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When the Daily Graphic crew studied hospital activity for three months from January to March of this year, it found that the entrance had been completely taken over by squatters who had built wooden buildings that functioned as their houses and businesses.
The squatters' actions at the entryway painted a terrifying image of the depth of hopelessness that lay beyond the gates.
Major portions of the 1,500-meter stretch wall that the Ministry of Health (MoH) recently constructed have been demolished by unidentified individuals in what is thought to be a land dispute.
Several disorderly behaviours were seen in spite of a police post that was set up in front of the facility.
Some of these incidents reportedly involved the theft of the hospital's water metres, laptops, air conditioner outside units, and medical equipment, as well as frequent muggings of personnel and students who were carrying personal things.
Locations or areas inside the hospital that are used as hangouts by prostitutes, marijuana dispensaries, or mechanic shops frequently endanger the security of the medical facility. were well known to the typical local.
Many hospital employees, patients, students, and other stakeholders, according to some residents, were continually afraid as they went about their daily business.
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