The Paramount Chief of the Kumawu Traditional Area, Barima Safo Tweneboah Kodua, has lamented the delay in the completion of the Sekyere Afram Plains district hospital.
He said the failure to complete the facility is denying his subjects quality health care.
Barima Safo Tweneboah Kodua at the visit of the minority group on the health committee in parliament on a nationwide inspection of the abandoned hospitals, says despite a return to the site by a contractor, the government has not released funds for the 120-bed project to continue.
The Ranking Member on the health committee in parliament Kwabena Mintah Akandoh says the government is simply insensitive to the health needs of the people.
The Kumawu and Fomena hospitals are part of seven facilities financed by United Kingdom Export Financing and work was to be completed in 2019 at the cost of 173 million euros.
The government says a total of $38.3 million out of contract sum $175 million was found in the coffers to complete the projects.
Mr Akandoh said “What I have seen here is an affront to the mandate the good people of this county have given to the president. I think that this government is a group of old men who have no respect for the stakeholders, stakeholders in the governance of this country, they have no respect for the people of this country.
If for nothing at all, we were here more than two years ago, if the president respects the parliament of this country, at least they would have responded positively.
“We are paying interest on the loan contracted for this purpose meanwhile the people in this country have not benefited from this project.
“This project was awarded somewhere in 2015 which should have been completed by 2017 and we are in 2021 and we are in the weeds. When you talk they will sit in Accra and try to defend.”
By Komla Kluste|3news.com|Ghana