Former President John Mahama is intensifying his campaign for a comeback in 2021 with a promise to build a hospital ship to improve healthcare delivery if elected on December 7, 2020.
“We will build a new Onipa Nua Hospital Ship and deploy it to provide medical services to the inaccessible riverine and fishing communities on the inland Volta waterways,” Mr Mahama said.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate made the promise on Thursday, June 18, 2020, during one of his Facebook Live sessions.
He made the promise to build and deploy the hospital ship after criticizing President Nana Akufo-Addo for abandoning some of his innovative policies that were aimed at improving healthcare delivery in the country.
He blamed the current administration for abandoning the Onua Do Mobile Vans that his administration introduced in 2015.
“These were vans meant to provide medical outreach services . . . in underserved and hard to reach areas of the country. But the vans have been left at the vagaries of the weather,” he stated.
He said the vans were designed to deliver specialized services in ophthalmology, dentistry, mammograms and general medicine by visiting rural and far-to-reach communities of the country but they have not been put to that use since he left office.
He said since the Akufo-Addo government has deliberately abandoned the specialized vans at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.
He, therefore, promised to rehabilitate these dilapidated mobile clinics and expand the number to care for all 16 regions of the country to enable government “take healthcare to the doorsteps of all our people, even in the remotest parts of our country”.
Source: Ghanaweb
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IT COST THE US $208 MILLION TO CONVERT AN OIL TANKER INTO THE USNS MERCY IN THE MID 80'S. I HAVE DEPLOYED WITH THE MERCY AN IT IS A STATE-OF-THE-ART MILITARY TREATMENT FACILITY (MTF).SUCH AN AMOUNT COULD BUILD SEVERAL HOSPITALS, SCHOOLS AND INDUSTRIALIZE OUR COUNTRY. CERTAINLY UTOPIAN ON MAHAMA'S SIDE. JUST ANOTHER MONEY EMBEZZLEMENT SCHEME IF HE IS ELECTED. SAY NO TO MAHAMA, #4MOREFORNANATODOMORE!!!!!
Mahama is really desperate!
WELL SAID BUT TELL US IF YOU ARE READY TO LET US KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THE AIRBUS AND THE KARPOWER DEAL?WE WILL VOTE FOR YOU WITH CONDITION FIRST-1WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW MUCH YOU GOT FROM THE AIRBUS DEAL?2 ARE YOU READY TO ACCEPT KWEKU BOAHEN,OFOSU AMPOFO -THE PENTECOST ELDER,or SAMMY GYAMFI AS YOUR RUNNING MATE?3 ARE YOU STILL CLAIM TO BE O-D_WA-N F-U-N-U AND YOU STILL HAVE LONG FIVE F-I-N-G-E-R-S?
Ship in my region?No we want submarine rather.You think we Voltarians have no sense, not every election that my people will vote in one direction.Just wait come December the world bank will be reduced to a rural bank.Afifiafitor
JM IS AHEAD OF NPP ON RECORD...NPP DECEIVED US BUT TIME WILL TELL
Waste of my time kwa. Facebook president keeps deceiving himself
My suggestion is that, fix tires to the ship so it can ride to Bole bamboi and Nsawkaw to take care of Asiedu Nkatie's village.
Talk is cheap........ This Mahama guy is a c0nman.
Conman! In fact, desperation will let this man say he will marry for every unmarried Ghanaian men. Papa, you have been a president before and we knew what you did to the economy. You leave the economy basaa for the NPP to fix and now that they have brought the economy back on it's feet, you want come spoil am. Enti se woandi president a wo nko heaven anaa! merebisa wo Mr. JDM! Wo ye anibere fo paa. Why don;t you let any other person in the NDC party to also try his luck if not 2020 then, 2024. Se wonye bayifo a na................? Amanfoc mo nfa oso so mame
A good indication of 4.9% economic growth in the first quarter of 2020 despite coronavirus pandemic. It is indeed, worth noting that the economy under the NPP -administration in the midst of COVID- 19pandemic had performed far better than the NDC-administration in normal times. Indeed, it is really significant to note that the NPP has what it takes, in terms of competence and astute personnel to manage the economy far better. NDC as a political party had failed Ghana for quite too long in light of good governance and economic management. Therefore, her comeback should be curtailed in non-negotiable terms. The performance of the two NPP administrations had clearly exposed the incompetence of the NDC. I'm confident that two consecutive NPP-Administration would see Ghana through a remarkable track of massive development.