Agenda 111: Work commence at 87 sites – Prez Akufo-Addo
President of the Republic, Nana Akufo-Addo, has disclosed that work has started at 87 out of the 111 sites demarcated for the Agenda 111 government flagship programme.
The President noted that preliminary works are still ongoing at the remaining 24 sites.
He made the disclosure while delivering the State of the Nation Address in Parliament on Wednesday, March 30, 2022, adding that the government has all the intention to see the projects through to a successful completion and commission before 2025.
‘’Mr Speaker, I have to report that, like all major construction projects, it is evident that the initial schedule we gave for the completion of the Agenda 111 was overly ambitious. Identifying suitable sites around the country, for example, has turned out to be even more problematic than had been anticipated’’.
‘’I am able to say that a great deal of the preparatory work has now been completed, and work has started at eighty-seven (87) of the one hundred and eleven (111) sites. I have been assured that preliminary work on the remaining twenty-four (24) sites is ongoing.
‘’We have every intention of seeing this project through to a successful end, which will enable me to commission all one hundred and eleven (111) hospitals before I leave office on 7th January 2025’’.
The President indicated that the Agenda 111 programme was born out of the necessity to address some shortcomings in the health care delivery system in the country.
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The Agenda 111 comprise of the construction of 100-bed district hospitals for 111 district in the country without hospitals with accommodation for doctors and nurses.
Build six new regional hospital for each of the six new regions, the rehabilitation of the Effia-Nkwanta Hospital in the Western Region; one (1) new regional hospital for the Western Region; and three (3) psychiatric hospitals for each of the three (3) zones of the country, i.e. North, Middle and Coastal.
The ambitious project is expected to create some thirty-three thousand, nine hundred (33,900) jobs for construction workers, and, on completion, some thirty-four thousand, three hundred (34,300) jobs for health workers.
‘’At the normal rate of growth, we are not likely to make up the deficit in our health facilities infrastructure for a very long time. Hence, the need for a special, dedicated programme of infrastructural development.
‘’We are undertaking the construction of 111 entities, which comprise standard 100-bed district hospitals for one hundred and one (101) districts without hospitals, with accommodation for doctors and nurses; six (6) new regional hospitals for each of the six (6) new regions; the rehabilitation of tthe rehabilitation of the Effia-Nkwanta Hospital in the Western Region; one (1) new regional hospital for the Western Region; and three (3) psychiatric hospitals for each of the three (3) zones of the country, i.e. North, Middle and Coastal.
‘’It is an ambitious project, which must and will be done, and which will create some thirty-three thousand, nine hundred (33,900) jobs for construction workers, and, on completion, some thirty-four thousand, three hundred (34,300) jobs for health workers,” said the President.
