President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has claimed that the Agenda 111 project will provide 20,000 employment to health professionals in the country when completed.
He disclosed this at the sod-cutting ceremony in Kumasi.
The first gentleman of the land told the gathering that a total of 25,000 direct and indirect jobs will be created during the construction of the facilities nationwide.
“We have incorporated into this agenda a strategy of direct and indirect jobs to stimulate the economies of the various communities in which the facilities are to be located. These include the creation of an estimated 25,000 jobs during the construction and design face i.e. jobs for architects, civil mechanics, electrical and biomedical engineers, quantity surveyors, masons, carpenters, welders, steel benders, painters, and related professionals and artisans as well as other indirect jobs.”
“Once completed, it will provide job opportunities for some 20,000 health professionals and this will enable the Ministry of Health to recruit doctors and nurses, pharmacists, and other health professionals,” he said at Trede in the Atwima Kwanwoma District of the Ashanti Region on Tuesday, August 17, 2021.
He added: “Agenda 111 will improve healthcare in every single district of the country that does not have one. To the extent that we have all witnessed that every single constituency in this country has an ambulance dedicated to it to assist in accessing healthcare.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com
