Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has given the Ministry of Health a five-day deadline to complete the infrastructural design for the reconstruction of La General Hospital.
The directive follows Mr Ofori-Atta’s site visit. The Finance Ministry has secured €50 million in domestic funding for the project’s reconstruction, which has stalled for 3 years.
In July 2020, the La General Hospital was demolished due to severe structural issues. Subsequently, President Akufo-Addo initiated the La General Hospital Redevelopment Project with a groundbreaking ceremony on August 10, 2020.
Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has blamed the delay in the reconstruction of the La General Hospital in Accra on the withholding of funds by the sponsors of the facility.
The stalled work has gotten residents living in La furious. They have threatened to take matters into their own hands if government fails to reconstruct the hospital.