Agenda 111: NPP aspirant rejects claims that no hospital was completed

NPP's Kwame Prempeh has challenged assertions that none of the Agenda 111 hospitals were completed under the Akufo-Addo administration, insisting that critics are confusing completion with operationalisation.

According to the NPP National Organiser aspirant, many of the facilities were physically completed but had not yet begun full operations before the change of government.

"When you complete a hospital, operationalising it involves several additional things," he said on New Day on TV3.

"The hospital must be there, the equipment must be there, but if you do not have doctors, nurses and staff, you cannot use it," he added.

Prempeh maintained that the physical infrastructure and equipment had largely been put in place at several facilities.

"The hospital is there. The facility is there. The equipment is inside. It becomes a matter of staffing and operationalising it," he explained.

He argued that responsibility for activating completed facilities rests with the government in office.

"It is a matter of getting staff in there and working the last mile to ensure the facility can be used," he said.

Prempeh further insisted that descriptions suggesting the hospitals were incomplete do not reflect the actual state of many of the projects.

"As a matter of completion, the hospitals have been completed," he stated.