Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, the former Member of Parliament for Assin Central, has voiced deep frustration regarding the prolonged delay in opening the Afari Military Hospital in the Ashanti Region, calling the setback a failure to enhance national healthcare.
Addressing journalists following his donation of a pickup truck and 15 motorcycles to the Ghana Police Service at the Accra Regional Police Headquarters on Tuesday, June 16, the former New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential aspirant targeted multiple administrations.
His criticism extended to his own party’s government, where he previously chaired Parliament’s Defence and Interior Committee.
Kennedy Agyapong noted that the facility, designed to provide medical services to both the military and the public, ought to have been fully functional years ago considering the substantial funding already poured into it.
He traced the project’s origins back to former President John Agyekum Kufuor’s administration, adding that major structural progress occurred under the following National Democratic Congress (NDC) government.
He candidly admitted that the NPP neglected to push the project across the finish line during its own eight-year tenure, despite taking over an already advanced development.
“This hospital was started by President John Agyekum Kufuor. The locations and all those things. NDC came to start it, and when we came, I am NPP, and I am telling you the gospel truth. I was the chairman for Defence and Interior, and we didn’t do anything.
“When we decided to go and inspect Afari, they stopped us. I heard somebody saying the Afari Hospital has been there for 15 months, but we were there for eight years and didn’t do it.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana