A second military hospital with a 500 bed capacity is currently under construction in Ghana’s second largest city, Kumasi in the Ashanti region, President John Mahama has revealed.
[contextly_sidebar id=”RFNDPRRPpAcO3Eg3vfYQYpXdtw13dbQe”]Delivering the State of the Nation of Address in Parliament on Thursday, the President said the project when completed will be named 37 Military Hospital, Kumasi.
The President also revealed that government has completed and commissioned three district hospitals in Edjumako, Essam and Zabzugu, as well as 19 health centres at Amasaman, Doffor, Pokukrom among others as part of measures to improve health care delivery in Ghana.
He promised Ghanaians will see the commencement of the construction of 15 polyclinics, 10 in the Central Region.
He said the provision of modern diagnostic and treatment equipment under the National Medical Equipment Replacement Programme has been expanded to cover 150 hospitals across the country, adding that “all Teaching Hospitals, all Regional Hospitals, 125 District Hospitals, 14 Health Centers and 8 mobile clinics have benefited from the programme.”
He said the nation’s foremost teaching hospital at Korle Bu, received significant resources to respectively replace and rehabilitate obsolete equipment and theatres under the programme.
Mahama also told MPs that government had budgeted about GH$ 3 million for the health sector.
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By: Marian Efe Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana