Former President John Mahama has said he will end the no-bed syndrome in his second coming. The flag bearer of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) told Ghanaians in a Facebook Live transmission on Monday, 23 December 2019 that his next government intends to continue the works he started during his last administration in opening up the health sector, by building more hospitals with more beds and employing more nurses, doctors and paramedics.
“What we did is to expand access to healthcare by building new hospitals. You cannot employ nurses when you don’t have anywhere to post them. And that’s why we started all the district hospitals. And our policy, when we launched our manifesto, is that there would be a modern health facility in every district of this country depending on the population size of the district.
“It can be a health centre, it can be a polyclinic, it can be a district hospital, and then, I already announced that in the six new regions, we are going to build six new regional hospitals.
“We’re also going to open the University of Ghana Medical Centre, and operationlise it”, Mr Mahama promised.
All these, he said, “will lead to the employment of more nurses and doctors”.
He added: “We’re going to start Phase II of the Ridge Hospital project so that we can have more beds”.
“We want to end the no-bed syndrome”, Mr Mahama noted, decrying: “We shouldn’t have an emergency where you go to any hospital and they say that: ‘We don’t have beds, take the patient away’. Or even if they are forced to admit them, they go bring plastic chairs and put patients in them with the drip by their side. It is not the Ghana of the 21st Century”.
“And, so, we’re going to expand the healthcare sector so that we can bring in more nurses and paramedics. We’ll fully operationalise the Wa Regional Hospital. The programme that we had before we left office, we were introducing 6,000 new hospital beds and if every hospital bed requires three paramedics, that’s 6,000 x 3; you can imagine how many people we could have employed”.
Mr Mahama also questioned the Akufo-Addo government’s claim that it had employed 50,000 nurses since coming into office three years ago.
“The government said they’ve employed 50,000 nurses since they came and still nurses are picketing and demonstrating. I mean, it just shows that it’s not true. Recently, we were told by the Nurses and Midwives Council or whichever body it is that the total number of nurses in Ghana does not exceed 70,000, so, how could you have employed 50,000 nurses? So, that’s a fallacy”.
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“We’re also going to open the University of Ghana Medical Centre, and operationlise it” This tells you that Mahama does not even know what is happening in this country. Have you been to the medical centre to see what is going on there?
Yes we know, for you, you can end everything. No problem. There is God ooooo
You were in power for eight years. Did you eliminate it and the current administration brought it back? You plunged the nation into darkness for four years so you could bring in emergency power plants and loot the nation with "Pay of Take" power purchase agreements. All the power plants that you brought into the countries were too expensive (We paid $510m for Ameri instead of $360m) and we are paying 14 US Cents per kWH while Ivory Coast id paying 9 Cents. Now the current administration is trying to renegotiate the PPAs and they are resisting because of the clauses that NDC inserted into the agreements which has increased the Energy Sector Levy debt astronomically. You di same for the Nungua Desalination Plant. You also signed the agreement for the most expensive natural gas in the world with ENI with Alex Mould as the implementing CEO. You did even worse with MPS agreement and you virtually sold away our rights as a country. You also gave away 60% of our whole bauxite deposit to your own brother's company one week before handiou and your ministers inflated project costs and stole so much money with the Saglemi housing project as the clearest example where 5000 housing units for US$200m was changed to 1200 houses for the same US$200m. JM supervised all this rot from 2012 to 2016. If you were bold to loot the country even when you knew that you would have to account for your stewardship for a renewal of your mandate, what will happen at a time when you will not have to come back for the renewal of your mandate? We are not ***barred word*** to allow you and your l000ting brigade to come and sell of the country, Mahama.
Oh hoo Brother Mahama, why
THANKS BUT NO THANKS
JM took Ghana to IMF, chopped sada 200 million, cancelked many allowances, plunged Ghana into dumsor and worst of all, brought back cash and carry in the same hospitals he is now promising to invest money. Can such a man be trusted? A very big NO