The Walewale GNPC hospital project in the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North East Region has stalled due to funding challenges following the 2024 national elections.
Despite being 80% complete since its inception on 17 September 2020, the project remains in limbo. The project was supposed to be completed in 2022 but remains uncompleted before NPP government left power in 2024.
The project is crucial for the region, serving as a referral centre and enhancing healthcare delivery. Its completion will benefit residents and reduce the need to seek medical care in neighbouring regions like the Upper East and Northern regions.
According to contractor Barima Ohene Aremeyaw, the change in government always affects contractors and businesses. He revealed to Asaase News that he had a meeting with the project’s sponsors, GNPC, and is hopeful that work will resume once funds are disbursed.
“Anytime government changes, it becomes a problem. So, it has been a visual cycle to the extent that some of these things are happening to a lot of projects that they are undertaking auditing and all those things. But generally, you know the visual cycle is always there when government changes and it is affecting businesses. It is affecting contractors and all that,” Barima Ohene said.
“GNPC, myself as a contractor, [and] the assembly, we had a meeting there as to how we could strategize to make sure that at least we move on with the project. There were certain things that were not added but now added. The structure itself that is there is 80 percent. We have sent an IPC [interim payment certificate], and we are hoping that at least, it will be effected as soon as possible so that we will come down again to come and do the other works that are remained,” he added.
The uncompleted hospital project, upon completion, will feature a range of facilities, including administration, trauma and emergency ward, eye clinic, labour ward, maternity ward, paediatric ward, modern laboratory, Antenatal Care (ANC) unit, male and female wards, surgical department, pharmacy, radiology unit, intensive care unit (ICU), kitchen, and modern toilet facilities.
Reporting by Dokurugu Alhassan for Asaase News in the North East Region
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