88 sites as part of the move to construct 111 new hospitals throughout the country, in a press conference on Sunday, August 15. 

He revealed that “the agenda 111 project aims at providing 111 district hospitals in the country. This will commence on Tuesday, 17 august 2021. The project will also see to the provision of two specialised hospitals, one for middle belt, and one for northern belt. These are psychiatric hospitals and then the redevelopment of the Accra Psychiatric hospital.” 

He also added that, “there will be the development of the six new regional hospitals and one extra hospital for the Western Region. It is programmed to take between 12 months to complete each one.”

“They have also been procuring the services of consultants. The master project Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the Information Minister, has stated that the government has secured itself has its consultant then for every one of the 111 sites, like it is done in every construction project, you need the consultant and the contractors working on it. They have also been working to secure funding of $100million has been made available to the project through the Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund.” 

President Nana Akufo-Addo inn his 8th Covid – 19 address to the nation last year announced the construction of hospitals in some 88 districts across the country.

-Emmanuel Opare