NDC Communications Officer, Sammy Gyamfi says President Nana Akufo-Addo's pledge to construct 88 district and 6 Regional hospitals in the country is nothing but a "fake promise".
President Nana Akufo-Addo, delivering his 8th update on the COVID-19 pandemic, identified some deficiencies in the health sector and as a result assured Ghanaians that his administration will set up ninety-four hospitals in a year.
"We will, this year, begin constructing eighty-eight (88) hospitals in the districts without hospitals. It will mean ten (10) in Ashanti, nine (9) in Volta, nine (9) in Central, eight (8) in Eastern, seven (7) in Greater Accra, seven (7) in Upper East, five (5) in Northern, five (5) in Oti, five (5) in Upper West, five (5) in Bono, four (4) in Western North, four (4) in Western, three (3) in Ahafo, three (3) in Savannah, two (2) in Bono East, and two (2) in North East Regions. Each of them will be a quality, standard-design, one hundred bed hospital, with accommodation for doctors, nurses and other health workers, and the intention is to complete them within a year. We have also put in place plans for the construction of six (6) new regional hospitals in the six (6) new regions, and the rehabilitation of the EffiaNkwanta Hospital, in Sekondi, which is the regional hospital of the Western Region. We are going to beef up our existing laboratories and establish new ones across every region for testing. We will establish three (3) infectious disease control centres for each of the zones of our country, i.e. Coastal, Middle Belt and Northern, with the overall objective of setting up a Ghana Centre for Disease Control," he stated.
But Sammy Gyamfi believes the President is throwing dust in the eyes of Ghanaians.
Speaking in a panel discussion on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo', Sammy Gyamfi urged Ghanaians to treat the President's pledge with the contempt it deserves claiming "Akufo-Addo is the only President in the history of Ghana who hasn't established a single hospital in the nation."
Listen to him in the video below
He further revealed that the President's promise is not something new and that he captured it in the NPP's 2016 manifesto, hence repackaging it to Ghanaians as a new challenge which has arisen as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
"The impression is being created that this is a new vision . . . This promise is not a new vision or a new policy direction that President Akufo-Addo has now discovered. It is an old promise that he made to Ghanaians in 2016 to win the election and he has failed Ghanaians. And knowing that we are getting close to the general elections and that he will lose, he has gone back to recycle that broken promise to deceive Ghanaians because he thinks that Ghanaians have short memories. So, it is just a rehash of one of his several broken promises," Sammy Gyamfi pointed out.
According to the NDC Communications Officer, the President is unashamedly lying to the citizenry.
"This promise made by President Akufo-Addo is a grand deception calculated for votes and not intended to be kept. President Akufo-Addo has realized that he has failed Ghanaians. He couldn't utilize the power given him about four years now for development especially in the health sector regarding the health of Ghanaians. He has failed Ghanaians woefully but he has realized this year is an election year and is more concerned about deceiving the people to win their votes. The first point I want to make and make very forcefully is this promise is an absolute lie...The President doesn't have any good intention to put it into good use," he accentuated.
Sammy Gyamfi wants the Akufo-Addo government to note that this year, "it is not about talk. It is not about promises . . . This year's election is comparison of records", and he was cocksure ''Ghanaians will reject this fake promise''.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Must you speak on every issue? Many people are feeling nuseated!
THIS BOY SAMMY GYAMFI LACKS BRAIN SURGERY WHICH CAN HELP HIM TO REASON BETTER.GHANA CANNOT GO FORWARD IF PEOPLE LIKE SAMMY GYAMFI,ASIEDU NKETSIA,KWEKU BOAHEN AND THAT PENTECOST ELDER OFOSU AMPOFO ARE NOT SILENCED. salute
these gooons always makes me think they have no brains, if china can build over a thousand bed capacity in less than a month what cant be done under the sun, you see ndc is lazy political party that does not think creatively but are very good at luuuting and stealing state resources. Never again are we goin to hand power to these bunch of nation wreckers, ediots
NDC said the President can't implement the free SHS but he has done it. Was it fake promise? I believe the President will build the hospitals.
I dont understand this ignorance by NDC. There is a running government and they have the mandate of the people to manage the affairs of the state properly. What is your problem when they decide to do project A or B? Why should we bring in political party opinion into everything we do? If NDC don't have any economic strategies then they should keep on doing this ***barred word*** argument because the Lazy Mahama has wasted three solid years since he left office to plan and strategies with daring policies. By now, he should have been drumming those policies for at least two and a half years. Lazy minds always making noise.
What is your problem if Government says he will build new hospitals.
En3mies of Ghana progress, if Nana Addo had listened to this same uugly propaganda noise , Ghanaians wouldn’t have enjoyed free shs today. Did Mahama finish all president Kuffour projects before he began his own. May God strike can’t do spirit from you people. Do you think everyone thinks like your vissionless, incompetentt and indecisive candidate of your party. Nana Addo will continue to think big for country once is going to help the poor and the vulnerable
Who is this Mills, I'm not sure your are a Ghanaian or lives in Ghana. I rest my case. how can the country progress with this barrage of attitude and insults. Did Sammy Gyamfi insults anyone in his submission? No. so why do you comment with an insult.
These NDC guys talk ***barred word*** and their conduct will prolong NDC continues stay in opposition .WHY?? The president says i will build 88 hospitals across the country . NDC and their usual propaganda have started their deception again as did with regards to FSHS promised . When will NDC rotten brains reasoning to their propaganda that nothing is impossible to do . NDC is becoming unattractive because characters like Sammy Gyamfi, Kwaku Boahene , Asiedu Nketisal and onther rotten brains like okutunor and co