Ghana’s Minister for Health, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu says that the construction of 111 district hospitals across the country will commence in the coming weeks.
Mr. Agyeman-Manu disclosed this in a media engagement on Friday.
He said that contractors have been on-site and are ready to commence work.
“By the end of this month or early August, we will begin the construction of the 111 hospitals. Contractors have been assigned to the project and are ready to begin,” the Health Minister said.
Mr. Agyeman-Manu first announced this project during his vetting in February.
The hospitals are estimated to cost between $5m and $7m each and in total cost $707 million.
He said even though the President mentioned in one of his speeches to the nation that the government planned to put up 88 hospitals, the number had increased to 111 to make room for additions, including hospitals for the six new regions that had no regional hospitals and other places that were left out at the initial count.
