{"id":398866,"date":"2018-02-06T08:32:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T08:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=398866"},"modified":"2018-02-06T08:54:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T08:54:18","slug":"ug-supposed-manage-medical-centre-segbefia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/02\/ug-supposed-manage-medical-centre-segbefia\/","title":{"rendered":"UG was supposed to manage Medical Centre – Segbefia"},"content":{"rendered":"
A former Minister of Health under the Mahama administration, Alex Segbefia, has stated that the University of Ghana had from the onset, been tasked to handle the management of the $217m Medical Centre.<\/p>\n
According to Mr. Segbefia, the second phase of the project, which was expected to cost about 48 million dollars would be paid for by the University after an agreement was reached for the institution to guarantee the loan.<\/p>\n
This, he said, meant that the University would be responsible for the payment of the loan for that phase of the project, and handle the running costs of the hospital after five years.<\/p>\n
“The whole idea of this project was that there was a phase 2, which at the time, was going to cost us $48 million. That was a loan that had to be guaranteed by the University of Ghana. By so doing, it meant that when the loan is taken out, the University of Ghana would be responsible for making the payments on the $50 million, not the $217 million. That is why it was important that they had management control. The whole hospital\u2019s running costs was going to be dealt with by government for only five years. After that the running costs plus the $50 million had to be paid for by the running of the hospital,” he said on Point Blank<\/strong> on\u00a0Eyewitness News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n “It became imperative that Legon, that was meant to guarantee that loan was to be involved in the management of the hospital. From Day 1, it was crafted in the manner in which Legon would have some level of management control and Board of Director control of the hospital.”<\/p>\n The ongoing tussle\u00a0between the University and the Ministry of Health over the management of the facility, has been suggested as the reason it remains idle despite being commissioned in 2016 by the President John Dramani Mahama.<\/p>\n