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The Ranking Member on the Health Committee, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh says the Minority in Parliament will consider filing a private member motion to compel the government to complete abandoned health facilities across the country.
According to him, these facilities left to the mercy of the weather are causing financial loss to the state.
Speaking on Top Story, on Tuesday he said that “we are going to consult leadership (NDC Caucus) and if there is a need we will compel the government to complete these projects so that our investment will not go to waste.”
“We have the right to do so because the money we used to undertake these projects were loans, we have started paying interest on these loans, meanwhile the people do not have the full benefit of the project.”
Mintah Akandoh’s comment comes after he and some other NDC members on the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health visited numerous health facilities across the country in different stages of completion.
The members began the assessment tour to apprise themselves of the status of work on the projects which have stalled since the NDC left power in 2017.
The MPs led by Ranking Member of the Health Committee, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh were left in shock at the deteriorating conditions of the health facilities despite millions of dollars being sunk into them.
The tour has already taken the team to the Fomena, Kumawu, Abetifi, Afari military hospital and Somanya abandoned facilities.
Mr Akandoh told Evans Mensah host of the show that the team embarked on the exercise to authenticate the government’s claim that no health facility has been abandoned since the NPP took over power in 2017.
“The Health minister and people from government have been categorical that no health project in this country has been abandoned, so it was our words against theirs so we decided to go and have these evidence,” he said.
The Health Committee’s ranking member said that the evidence they gathered prove some health facilities were not operating which was pathetic and exhibits wickedness on the part of the government.
“What we saw was pathetic. Go to Abetifi you will be sad, you will weep. This is causing financial loss to the state,” Mr Akandoh added.
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