{"id":409110,"date":"2018-03-13T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=409110"},"modified":"2018-03-12T18:13:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T18:13:12","slug":"land-acquisition-hustle-threat-healthcare-sekondi-takoradi-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/03\/land-acquisition-hustle-threat-healthcare-sekondi-takoradi-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Land acquisition hustle; a threat to healthcare in Sekondi-Takoradi [Article]"},"content":{"rendered":"
The growth in the population of the Western Region, driven largely by the increased exploitation of its natural resources, requires adequate health institutions and other infrastructure to offer medical services to the ever growing population, and also to create jobs.<\/p>\n
To this end, I am going to highlight the frustrations of those managing health systems and other key sectors of the economy in this part of the country in their quest to acquire land in order to fix health and other infrastructural deficits.<\/p>\n
Whilst you read down, ask yourself, is it not this same region that complains about not getting their fair share of the national cake despite the resources it produces?<\/p>\n
Let me start with the ultra-modern Sekondi District Hospital that never saw the light of day.<\/p>\n
The Sekondi District Hospital Project<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n There is this imaginary Sekondi District Hospital that is painfully lost. It was supposed to be a 120-bed capacity hospital \u201cthat will have 21st century equipment and facilities\u201d, according to the Ministry of Health. It was supposed to be constructed by Messrs NMS Infrastructure after they had \u201cfought\u201d to assist in securing the $175,000,000 funds from Barclays Plc in London for this important project and six others in 2013.<\/p>\n Hospital facilities lost<\/strong><\/p>\n This hospital was going to have Intensive Care Unit, 2 Operating Theatres, Dental Unit, Medical and surgical wards for both men and women, Accident and Emergency Unit, Maternity, not forgetting the integrated ICT systems and a host of other exciting services. Look, the project was unique by all standards. The greenery scenes, \u201cwas aimed at providing a therapeutic environment to aid patient\u2019s recovery\u201d, and more importantly the services which are only available in Accra that were going to be provided right at our doorsteps were relieving enough!<\/p>\n If anyone has seen the Dodowa Hospital, that ultra-modern health facility with the state of the art machinery for quality health delivery, you will understand me better.<\/p>\n The beginning of the end<\/strong><\/p>\n