President John Dramani Mahama has revealed that the former Akufo-Addo government spent $400 million on the Agenda 111 hospital projects yet not a single Hospital is operational.
According to John Mahama, the Agenda 111 hospital projects were just a knee-jerk response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
John Mahama further communicated displeasure that the project, which was meant to improve healthcare infrastructure, has not produced any operational facilities.
Delivering his first State of the Nation Address in his second term to Parliament on Thursday, February 27, President Mahama revealed that over $400 million has been spent on the project yet there is nothing to be shown.
President Mahama stated, “It is worth disclosing that USD400m has already been disbursed under the Agenda 111 project. If this amount had been used appropriately, it would have completed and made operational about 22 of these hospitals”.
Meanwhile, earlier revealed Ghana will need $ 1.7 billion to complete all unfinished Agenda 111 projects as there are so many unfinished Agenda 111 hospitals.
Speaking during a meeting with the Christian Council, John Mahama stated, “The previous government started Agenda 111 but has not been able to finish the hospitals. There are so many of them unfinished. Even the one they said they had commissioned there is nothing in it, just one hospital they finished the structure there is not even a single bed in the hospital.
“Now we need 1.7 billion US dollars to complete the Agenda 111 projects,” he lamented.
John Mahama further added, “If the missions have a hospital in an area, we are not coming to compete with the missions by building a hospital. We will use the resources to improve the mission hospitals so that they can provide the service.
“So I am also proposing that if some of the missions are interested, they could finish some of the hospitals and manage them”, he added.
The president further proposed religious bodies collaborate to help complete some of the delayed projects.
However, speaking on AsaasePa FM, Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare detailed that Ghana needs $1.4 billion to complete all projects, not $1.7 billion, he stated, “It $1.4 billion to complete all projects, not $1.7 billion, I don’t know where he got that figure from, that is the money they need to get and they can get that money.
