Deputy Executive Secretary at the Postal and Courier Services Regulatory Commission Madam Lawuratu Musah-Saaka says unsuitable lands allocated for the Agenda 111 projects are prolonging its construction.
According to her, several sites are on mountainous and rocky areas, and cutting rocks is not child’s play and that is impeding the progress of the government’s flagship programme.
Speaking on Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana on Monday, January 30, 2023, Madam Lawuratu Musah-Saaka explained some factors affecting the construction of the projects.
“Everyone who knows a mining terrain knows how hilly and rocky such areas can be. When you go to places like Tarkwa, Ayanfuri, Obuasi, and all those places when you are building at certain parts of the town, you need to do a lot of cutting just to get a level ground to put a safe facility there”
“This is a hospital facility. There are some of the sites I think about 14 of them that after the test and all the assessment [they] were rejected. But those were the only sites available. So, what do you do? You’ve to re-engine the designs and find ways on making the site work,” She explained.
She noted “If anybody knows Obuasi very well, Kwabenakwa is at the outskirt thus between Obuasi and Asokwa Junction. Some of the sites were difficult to manage because they were looking at 6-15 acres of land but some couldn’t even provide that size of land so they still have to manage so you realize that some have been redesigned into two-storey facility just to make it easy and functional.”
Agenda 111
On Tuesday, August 17, 2021, in the Atwima Kwanwoma District of the Ashanti Region, President Akufo-Addo held the ground-breaking ceremony for the Agenda 111 project, which he announced in April 2020.
The goal was to improve the delivery of high-quality healthcare at the district level and to hasten public access to healthcare services.
The estimated cost of each unit was US$17 million, and all the units were slated to be finished in a year.
However, none of the promised hospitals have been finished for more than two years.
By: Bernard Ralph Adams | Metrotvonline.com | Ghana
