The Sekyere Kumawu District Hospital Project is likely to be completed by the end of this year, the Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah, has assured.
He noted during a working visit to the project site last week Wednesday that the project was about 90% complete.
The Minister assured that with the current rate of work and progression the project would be completed and commissioned by the end of this year.
The Minister tasked the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to speed up the connection of power to the site in readiness, while the road from Juaben to Kumawu was almost done.
Mr. Ernest Anim, Member of Parliament (MP) for Kumawu Constituency, expressed satisfaction with the pace and progress of the project and commended the contractor for the efforts in ensuring the completion of the project on time.
The MP commended Mr. Addai Agyekum, the District Chief Executive for Kumawu for the supervision role he had so far played in the execution of the project.
Mr. Addai Agyekum assured that the District Assembly would continue to play its supervising role to ensure that the project was completed timely to improve quality healthcare in the area and the surrounding communities.
The project consists of a theater, four bed recovery unit, 24-bed surgical female/male ward, 24-bed female/male medical ward and 6-bed accident and emergency ward.
The rest are 6-bed observation/out-patient ward, maternity, 32-bed obstetrics/gynecologist ward and 15-bed pediatric ward.
The 120-bed capacity Sekyere Kumawu District Hospital Project, which started in 2012, is being executed by NMS Infrastructure Limited.
The Kumawu Hospital is one of six proposed district hospitals captured in a US$175 million loan agreement to be located in Kumawu and Fomena in the Ashanti Region, Sekondi in the Western Region, Abetifi in the Eastern Region, Dodowa in the Greater Accra Region and Tempane in the Upper East Region.
The transition in government in 2016 stalled the project at the time 80 per cent of concrete works had been completed, with major plumbing work yet to be done.
The contractors returned to the site in August 2020, following the government’s commitment to pursue its Health for All policy, after it (government) had duly done value for money analysis of the project, giving the hope that the US$29.6 million project would be completed.
However, an additional US$10 million variation was needed to complete the project.
