Vice-President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has received plaudits from President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for playing a crucial part in the development of the Agenda 111 hospital project, which attempts to solve Ghana’s lack of medical facilities.
President Akufo-Addo revealed during a visit to the Northern Region last Tuesday that Dr. Bawumia came up with the concept for the massive health infrastructure project amid the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The vice president had alerted him to a troubling finding: there were no district hospitals in 88 of Ghana’s 260 districts.
“This is something extremely important for the history books of this country,” the president remarked. “At the height of the pandemic, late 2020 or early 2021, Dr Bawumia came to my office without an appointment, as he often does, and informed me that his research team found that 88 districts had no hospitals. When I heard this, my heart jumped.”
President Akufo-Addo disclosed that there were 101 districts without hospitals in reality after conducting additional research. Agenda 111, which seeks to build hospitals in underprivileged districts and regions around the nation, was made possible by this as well as the need for additional regional hospitals and psychiatric facilities.
