Mr Ato Quainoo, Presiding Member of the Ajumako-Enyan-Essian District Assembly, has appealed to the Government, the Ministry of Health and the Ghana Health Service to speed up the construction of the District Hospital at Ajumako in the Central Region.
Mr Quainoo made the appeal through the Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Mr Afriyie Ankra at Ajumako when the Deputy Minister interacted with the Assembly members at its ordinary session at the weekend.
He said the hospital, when completed would have full facilities including doctors, nurses and mid-wives and would be second only to the Cape Coast Central Hospital, but that the constructional work had come to a halt
over the past 18 months.
He said what was more disturbing was that the Assembly and the District Health Directorate had no official records on it and could therefore not trace the contractors, since the project was awarded at the Ghana Health Service headquarters in Accra.
Mr Ankrah, who was on an official duty tour to Takoradi in the Western Region, had stopped over to interact with the Assembly members for a short while.
He reminded members of the Assembly that the District Assembly concept was non-partisan and that they should unite to bring development to the area, adding that the assemblies had for some time now become training grounds for up-coming politicians.
He congratulated the out-going Assembly members and urged them to finish hard, and to leave a mark for in-coming Assembly members to continue from where they left off.
Mr Ankrah also commended the District Chief Executive, Mr Peter Light Koomson, for adding two more schools in the area to the on-going school feeding programme and charged Assembly members to be vigilant in monitoring all activities so that the available limited resources would be judiciously used for the benefit of all.