The Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has conceded that government would not be able to build the La General Hospital in Accra as planned because it lacks the needed funds for the project.
He blamed the delay in the reconstruction of the hospital on the withholding of funds by the sponsors of the facility.
President Akufo-Addo cut the sod for the commencement of construction of the La General Hospital Redevelopment Project on August 10, 2020, after the existing structures were demolished a month earlier.
But after three years, work is however yet to start on the project.
Mr. Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu who is also the Leader of Government Business explained in Parliament that the sponsors withheld the funds after Ghana entered into an engagement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
“Mr. Speaker, what has happened is that after the engagement with the IMF, funding from those sources that Parliament approved of, the funding has been withheld by the sponsors,” Citinewsroom quoted him to have said.
“Mr. Speaker, until the nation is given a clean bill of health by the IMF, it is going to be difficult for the funding to be released. This is why the government now wants to situate it within the context of Agenda 111, and that will mean that the facility will have to be scaled down a bit.”
