President Akufo-Addo commissioned mere buildings, not hospitals – Kwame Sarpong Asiedu – Ghana Information On-line
A analysis fellow on the Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Kwame Sarpong Asiedu has accused outgoing President Nana Akufo-Addo of merely commissioning buildings and calling them hospitals.
According to Asiedu, these constructions can’t be thought of correct hospitals in the event that they lack important medical sources comparable to beds and healthcare professionals.
Speaking on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show on Thursday, December 19, he defined {that a} hospital doesn’t operate correctly if it has no medical beds accessible and lacks well being professionals to look after sufferers.
He identified that the nation’s present hospital capability is inadequate when in comparison with the variety of medical doctors accessible, notably within the 5 educating hospitals and regional hospitals.
“Let’s say if we have 7,000 doctors in Ghana and that includes doctors who have left the country, if we say that the 5 teaching hospitals have a minimum of 200 doctors each because we have people training and all that, that is 21,000 to 31,000 offers for 5 hospitals,” Mr Asiedu mentioned.
He additional acknowledged that whereas the nation has sufficient nurses based mostly on the inhabitants ratio, the most important drawback is the shortcoming to make use of them as a consequence of monetary constraints.
Mr Asiedu additionally highlighted that, forward of the 2024 elections, the federal government had introduced that the portal was open for the 2020 nursing graduates to use for jobs.
He identified that many nurses who graduated between 2020 and 2023 are nonetheless unemployed, and the 2024 batch is ready to affix them.
“The government put information in different reports and documents knowing that few of us will read the documents and try and say if you cross-reference this information, it does not add up because what is in this document is different from what is in the other documents, meanwhile they are all official government documents,” he mentioned.
However, Mr Asiedu mentioned that regardless of the nation coaching nurses, they continue to be unemployed as a consequence of a scarcity of funding.
He additionally commented on the federal government’s plans to construct new hospitals, saying, “We are constructing 110 hospitals which we’d like 7.5 billion which we don’t have.
At the marketing campaign, we had a president who sees all these paperwork, he commissioned all this stuff, he mentioned, ‘Working around 3 buildings and cutting tapes and calling them hospitals, let’s cease the jokes within the nation,” he ended.
Source: myjoyonline.com
