The construction of a 100-bed district hospital for the Ashanti Region’s Ejura Sekyeredumase District has officially started thanks to Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia’s groundbreaking ceremony.
The hospital, which is being built as part of the government’s flagship Agenda 111 program, is expected to have cutting-edge equipment, including X-rays, medical gases, a microbiology analyzer, a haematology analyzer, a chemistry analyzer, a CT scanner, and MRI machines. It will also have a medical MRI machine.
It is anticipated to cost $16 million, take 18 months to complete, and include some staff housing as well.
In a few remarks during the ceremony on Tuesday, July 18, 2023, held in Ejura, Dr. Bawumia reaffirmed the government’s commitment to ensuring the improved welfare of all Ghanaians.
As a result, 111 hospitals of various types were built to ensure that every district has a hospital and is accessible to higher-level facilities.
“This (Agenda 111) is the biggest investment in hospital infrastructure in Ghana’s history since Independence. We want to ensure that every district in Ghana has a hospital. We have six new regions, so we are also building six new regional hospitals, as well as upgrading the Efia Nkwanta Hospital (Western Region). We will also construct two new Psychiatric hospitals, in Kumasi and Tamale,” he stressed.
Dr. Bawumia noted that the government has also implemented a number of initiatives to improve the delivery of health care and increase access to it, including the One Constituency One Ambulance program, ongoing hospital networking to make it easier to access medical case histories, the introduction of the drone medical delivery system, and the E-Pharmacy regulations.
“We will continually explore ways to improve our healthcare delivery approaches and systems” he pledged adding, “a healthy nation is a wealthy nation. We all need our strengths to develop Ghana the way we want to”.
The chief of Ejura, Barima Osei Hwedie II, thanked the government for the hospital project and expressed happiness at the number of projects completed in Ejura and its surroundings over the previous six and a half years, “mainly thanks to the efforts of the Vice President.” He also urged his citizens to support other national development initiatives.
