Work on the Tetegu CHPs compound in the Weija Gbawe Constituency of the Greater Accra Region, will continue to stall due to disagreements between the contractor and the MP for the area.
The MP, Tina Naa Ayele Mensah, who’s also a Deputy Minister of Health, says the contractor has failed to cooperate with her for the project’s completion.
[contextly_sidebar id=”49L1WjSdlimC1p48HzjF1i6f0s2GBi92″]Checks by Citi News show that the health facility has been taken over by rodents and weed.
“I went to the assembly, they said didn’t have a record on work being done on Tetegu CHPs compound, so I had to call the unit committee and the Assemblywoman and the contractor. The contractor was asking us who we are; he told us that the contract was given to him from the castle, so he would have to go ask those who gave him the contract,” she said.
But speaking to Citi News, Madam Naa Ayele Mensah accused her contender in the 2016 elections, Oboubia Darko Opoku of spreading lies about the project.
The NDC’s 2016 Parliamentary candidate for the area, Oboubia Darko Opoku, blamed the current MP for the situation, accusing her neglecting the project she sourced funding for.
The Deputy Minister said she would engage the chief and community members to persuade her NDC opponent and the contractor to ensure the completion of the project.
“I am going to call the community, invite the chief and everybody and let them know that the project is still in her possession and she does not want to hand it over to me, so it’s all propaganda on her side, going to radio stations and telling a different story,” she said.
Residents of Tetegu in the Weija-Gbawe Constituency in Accra, have expressed disappointment in the Member of Parliament, Tina Mensah, over her inability to facilitate the completion of the CHPS compound.
Abandoned completed health projects
Citi News has in the last few months, exposed some health projects undertaken by successive governments which cost the taxpayer several millions of dollars but have been abandoned.
The major ones that have come up for mention are the $217 million University of Ghana Medical Centre, the Bank of Ghana Hospital, the solar-powered medical centre at the Volo Digital Village in the Volta Region, as well as the GHc320,000 CHPS compound at Teshie which are all not in use.
With the University of Ghana Medical Centre, although the first phase has been completed, there is a struggle between the University of Ghana and the Health Ministry, over the management of the facility, with the government saying it needs an additional $6 million to make it operational.
With regards to the Bank of Ghana Hospital, the Board is yet to decide on what module of management to adopt, although the facility was built in three years and mostly completed in 2017.
In the case of the Volo Medical Centre, health professionals are unwilling to work there due to the lack of staff accommodation as well as the location of the facility.
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By: Farida Yusif/citinewsroom.com/Ghana