President Akufo-Addo has expressed his dissatisfaction at the failure to complete the maternity block at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.
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Akufo-Addo ‘very distressed’ by abandoned KATH maternity block; promises action
Campaigning on the message of ‘Change’, mothers in the Ashanti Region and beyond would be hoping that President Akufo-Addo would be the one to keep his promise and finally cut the ribbon 44 years after construction began.
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He made this known following a visit to the site in Kumasi where he is currently on a three-day tour.
In a Facebook post, the president said “I am very distressed at what I have seen here today. It is not to the credit of our nation that an important hospital project should stand for 44 years uncompleted. We have to do something about it, and I intend to do so.”
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The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital is a major referral centre for cases within the Ashanti Region and beyond.
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The current maternity section of the hospital is infamous for overcrowding and the hospital lacks mechanisms to cope adequately with the numbers. According to hospital authorities, when completed, the block would greatly reduce the number of maternal and infant deaths recorded at the hospital each year.
Promises to have it completed by successive governments are not hard to find but those promises never materialised.
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