More Projects To Be Commissioned This Year - Deputy Works and Housing Minister
Deputy Minister for Works and Housing, Eugene Boakye Antwi, has disclosed that the government is expecting to commission more projects this year.
He says these projects when commissioned will provide more jobs for most Ghanaian unemployed youth.
The Subin Member of Parliament (MP) who disclosed this in an interview on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' programme explained that the NPP government work hard to fulfill its promises.
"We promised the people of Ghana and we are delivering. They did not vote for us to come and engage in unnecessary venture and always engaging the opposition, they voted us to improve the living standards of the ordinary," he said.
He added that one of such projects which the NPP Government is committed to seeing to its completion is the forty-four (44) year old Maternity and Children’s Block of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Friday, 15th May, 2020, cut the sod for the reactivation of work for the construction of the forty-four (44) year old Maternity and Children’s Block of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.
The project, which is being funded by German Bank, Deutsche Bank, will cost €155 million and is expected to be completed within 36 months, with the construction being undertaken by Contracta.
Once completed, President Akufo-Addo stated that the Maternity and Children’s Block will be a state-of-the-art, modern health edifice, with paediatrics, gynaecology, and obstetrics units.
“It will serve as a referral center for twelve (12) of the sixteen (16) regions of our country. It will be a seven hundred and fifty (750)-bed building, with outpatient areas for adults and children, and it will have ten (10) operating theatres and diagnostic rooms, fully equipped with X-Ray, ultrasound, and mammography facilities,” he said.
He was made to understand, at the time, that this project had begun in 1976, as part of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital Expansion Project, but came to a standstill in 1979. It was reactivated in 1999, under the administration of the 1st President of the 4th Republic, His Excellency Jerry John Rawlings, but again stalled shortly afterward.
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