The Volta Regional branch of The National Democratic Congress is demanding the nine hospitals promised by President Nana Addo.
In a press statement issued and signed by both the Regional and Deputy Regional Communication Officers reminded “H. E. President that, a promise is like a debt and so long as he has made the promise to build the hospitals, he is indebted to the region and we will continue to remind him till the hospitals are constructed in fulfilment of the promise”.
In April last year, President Nana Akufo-Addo promised to build 94 new hospitals within a year.
Below is the full statement:
PRESS RELEASE
BY: VOLTA NDC
DATE:4TH MAY, 2021
VOLTA REGION DEMANDS THE NINE HOSPITALS PROMISED BY PRESIDENT NANA ADDO
“A time has come when silence is betrayal that time is now” said Dr Martin Luther King decades ago.
It is the resolve of the NDC in the Volta Region that it will be a great betrayal on the part of the party to remain silent after a year has elapsed since H.E. the President promised to build nine district hospitals in the region to help improve health delivery infrastructure to mitigate the Covid -19 pandemic.
As a major political party in the region, we have taken the pain to monitor the promise made by H.E. the President. Our search in all districts without hospitals in the region, has revealed that absolutely no work has begun to build any hospital, not even a block has been laid anywhere to show any semblance of commitment to the promise made by H.E. the President.
Volta Region is reminding H. E. President that, a promise is like debt and so long as he has made the promise to build the hospitals, he is indebted to the region and we will continue to remind him till the hospitals are constructed in fulfilment of the promise.
The Volta Region has some districts with district hospitals and those without these facilities such as Adaklu, Akatsi North, Ho West, Afadzato South, North Dayi, North Tongu, Agortime Ziope, Anlo and South Dayi people have to move long distances to access health care. There are various instances of how people die as a result of their inability to access health care and the truama expectant mothers go through to deliver their babies.
‘Ian Smith’, the last Prime Minister of Rhodesia, said in his book, “A statesman thinks of the next generation, a politician thinks of the next election.” The NDC in the Volta Region is reminding H.E. the President of his promise and what he makes of his own promise, to enable us conclude on whether H.E. the President is a statesman or a politician.
Signed:
Sorkpa K. Agbleze, (Volta NDC Regional Communication officer)
Delali Bright Kugbeadzor. (Deputy Regional Communication officer)
Story by Edzorna Francis Mensah
