All Agenda 111 hospitals cannot be completed by 2024 – NPP MP

Chairman of the Health Committee in Parliament, Dr Nana Ayew Afriyie, has admitted that all the hospitals promised by government under the Agenda 111 project cannot be completed by the end of 2024.

Government had earlier indicated its optimism to complete the construction of all the hospitals under the project by 2024.

“Frankly, I would not say that all 111 and seven regional hospitals and two psychiatric hospitals could be finished in 2024

If the NPP inherits itself as it will, then it will see the light of day that all these districts will have the hospitals,” he said.

The Effiduase Asokore MP contended that the project must not be politicised, because its inability to be completed benefits no government.

The project will cover the design, procurement, construction, equipping and commissioning of 101 district hospitals, 6 regional hospitals in newly created regions, and 1 regional hospital in the Western Region, 2 psychiatric hospitals in Kumasi and Tamale, a redeveloped Accra Psychiatric Hospital.

Doctors, nurses and other health personnel will have accommodation in the hospitals to be constructed.