By Kwabia Owusu-Mensah
Trede (Ash) Nov. 18, GNA – The government, through the private sector, is constructing a total of 14,420 housing units for the Agenda 111 hospitals, which are being constructed across the country.
Each of the hospital’s site will have 140 housing units made up of 40 one-bedroom units, 48 two-bedroom units and 52 three-bedroom units.
The project is being implemented by Akrot Consults, a subsidiary of Akrot Group, in collaboration with the ministries of Works and Housing, Health and the Ghana Health Service, under the Build Operate and Transfer (BOT) arrangement.
Mr Augustus Akrofi, Group Chief Executive Officer of Akrot, told the Ghana News Agency during a visit to one of the Agenda 111 project sites at Trede, in the Atwima Kwanwoma district, that the project was being financed solely by his company and financial partners at the cost of $865 million.
The objective, he said, was to support the government to provide descent accommodations for doctors, nurses and other health workers, who would be posted to work in the health facilities across the country.
The project, he said, would include commercial areas, schools, eateries and other essential services, which would make the facilities complete medical village.
Mr Akrofi said the provision of the facilities would help solve the accommodations problems and ensure that health professionals stayed at work to improve the health status of the people in the communities.
He said the projects would start concurrently in all Agenda 111 sites, which were above 50 percent completion stage, and it would take one year to complete.
Mr Akrofi pointed out that funding had already been secured, and work would soon commence at the various sites.
Mr Samuel Sackey, Architect on the project, said the project was part of contribution being made by the private sector to solve the accommodation challenges facing professionals across the country.
He said the construction of the project would provide employment opportunities for the people in the various communities where the projects were located.
Mr Sackey said all the drawings and other technical work had been completed for the actual work to begin.
GNA