Former Presidential Advisor on Health under the erstwhile Akufo-Addo administration, Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare wants government to allocate funds to complete the Agenda 111 hospitals project in its 2025 budget.
He noted that the Agenda 111 projects will be a “major infrastructure which is going to be a heritage for the whole country.”
He said Government will disappoint Ghanaians if it does not capture the Agenda 111 projects in its 2025 Budget.
“I’m waiting to see what comes in the budget. If they don’t put anything on Agenda 111, I will be so sad and Ghanaians will be sad,” he said in an interview on JoyNews, March 4.
Dr. Nsiah-Asare further argued that contrary to President Mahama’s claim, the amount needed to complete the project is $1.37billion not $1.7billion.
“Even the President himself when he made the State of the Nation Address and said $1.7billion I was asking myself where from this figure. When we were writing the handing over notes at the end of October 2024, it was $1.407billion to complete, as at the end of December 2024, we did some payment so it was $1.37billion not $1.7billion he is talking about,” he explained.
Only one Agenda 111 Hospital completed; $1.7bn needed to finish project – Mahama
He said it is government’s responsibility to look for resources to operationalize the commissioned hospitals under the Agenda 111 projects.
His comment comes after the Health Minister, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh told journalists on Tuesday that civil works on three of the Agenda 111 projects commissioned under the Akufo-Addo government are yet to be completed as they are below 95 percent.
Speaking in an interview, Dr. Nsiah-Asare explained that the commissioned hospitals at their current stages can be fully operationalized while government add on with equipment and staff later.
“A hospital which they have agreed is about 95% according to what they are saying can be commissioned and even operationalized. The OPD and other things can be used whiles you add on. When the laboratories and the OPD equipment and other things are there, people can go there.
“That’s exactly what has happened. So, it is incumbent on them as a sitting government to find resources and make it operational…I challenge them, they can start running the facility if they like,” he said on JoyNews.
The post I’ll be sad if gov’t makes no allocation in 2025 Budget for Agenda 111 projects – Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare first appeared on 3News.
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