The National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama, has expressed doubts about the government’s Agenda 111 project’s viability, calling it unduly ambitious.

During a conversation with church members in Accra, Mahama voiced his doubts, pointing out that the government’s plan seems ambitious and unlikely to be finished in a reasonable amount of time.

Mahama claims that even though the government launched the Agenda 111 initiative, which entails building 80 hospitals, the plan is impractical.

He proposed that a more prudent course of action would have been to start with fewer, like forty, and make sure they were finished before taking on more.

“This government started their Agenda 111 as they call it and they started with 80 hospitals. I don’t know what survey was done before the hospitals were being put in, but most of them are at a certain stage of completion. One would have thought that they would start with what they can do and finish.

“And so if you can do 40 hospitals, finish and open them, then you start another. But you spread to 80 hospitals, the time they leave office, I don’t think many of them would have been completed.”

President Akufo-Addo promised to build 111 hospitals statewide to increase the geographical coverage of healthcare in the nation. The Agenda 111 project is a part of the New Patriotic Party’s government health strategy, which aims to establish a hospital in each district and area of Ghana.