The reason 12 earmarked districts across Ghana for the
construction of coronavirus treatment centers could not materialize was because
funds meant for the projects we diverted to procure PPEs.
Government of Ghana through the
Health Ministry was supposed to construct 12 fully furnished Covid-19 treatment
centers through a World Bank support fund in 2020.
However, this was not realised
because, Minister designate for Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu claims the funds
went into procurement of personal protective equipment for front line health
workers in the country.
He made these comments during
his vetting in Parliament and assured that the second tranche of the welfare
support from the World Bank has been released and contractors have been engaged
to return to work.
” The monies that we were
supposed to have utilitised through the world bank welfare,almost all went into
procurement of PPEs ,sanitizers,face masks, gowns for the doctors and all that.
So the project halted a little bit .it is only now that the second tranche of
the world bank support is giving us room to actually advance monies. We asked
the contractors to prefinance and we will come on and I believe by close of
this year ,all these treatment centers will have been completed” he disclosed.
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