Former Roads Minister Inusah Fuseini has waded into the controversy surrounding the yet-to-be opened Ofankor hospital in Accra describing the health minister’s approach to the facility as unfortunate.
According to him, claims by the minister that the design of the multi-million facility is faulty is insulting to the Ghanaian consultants and engineers who constructed the hospital.
The health centre which was constructed at Ofankor in the Ga West District of the Greater Accra region has been abandoned since it was completed.
The facility was constructed by the government of Ghana through the Ministry of Roads and Highways, with funding from the African Development Bank.
But according to Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, there are still several things to be completed at the facility before it is opened to the public.
“They are telling everybody that, the new minister and new government has refused to open the facility, no equipment and design faulty several things must be done there, we have identified it and we are working on it,” he told Starr News’ Daniel Lartey.
Commenting on the development, Mr. Fuseini, under whose watch the facility was constructed, said the hospital was constructed with the involvement of the health ministry and all relevant stakeholders.
“The hospital was built as part of the contract for the construction of roads. After the project was completed there was a default liability period which makes the contractor responsible for any faults detected after construction.
“Even before we left office, we began discussions with the GHS and we were informed that they were bringing some equipment and would allocate some to the facility to make it operational. The hospital was built by a certified engineer but was not 100% complete at the time we left office so to say it is faulty is insulting to the Ghanaian engineers who worked on it,” he told Starr News’ Naa Dedei Tetteh.
Source: Ghana/Starrfmonline.com/103.5FM
