{"id":229653,"date":"2016-07-10T12:48:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T12:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=229653"},"modified":"2016-07-10T12:48:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T12:48:13","slug":"govt-will-complete-knust-teaching-hospital-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=229653","title":{"rendered":"Gov&#8217;t will complete KNUST teaching hospital &#8211; Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Mahama has assured that the government will step in to complete the construction of a teaching hospital\u00a0for the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in the Ashanti Region.<\/p>\n<p>President Mahama stated that he would immediately begin a search for funds to finish the project which was started by the Kumasi-based University, following an appeal to him by the Chancellor of the school, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am reliably informed that KNUST has started the construction of its teaching hospital to promote greater access to medical education. This is very commendable. I believe that his royal majesty, the Chancellor\u2019s request is in order and let me add that not many people can refuse a request from the Otumfuo,\u201d President Mahama said at the 50<sup>th<\/sup> Congregation of the University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll therefore set to work immediately to seek the funding to continue and complete the teaching hospital you have started as a reward for your 50<sup>th<\/sup> congregation<strong>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Mahama also called on the graduates to transfer the knowledge they had acquired at the University into ideas for the development of the societies in which they live.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Mahama-Tech3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-229597\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Mahama-Tech3.jpg\" alt=\"Mahama Tech3\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to him, the quality of the University can only be determined by the level of impact made by its students on the people around them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Mahama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-229612\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Mahama.jpg\" alt=\"Mahama\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mark of a good university is not about the great performance on campuses, but its ability to transform people and institutions outside for meaningful development,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Mahama has assured that the government will step in to complete the construction of a teaching hospital\u00a0for the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in the Ashanti Region. President Mahama stated that he would immediately begin a search for funds to finish the project which was started by the Kumasi-based University, following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":225551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/225551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}