NPP outperforms NDC in health infrastructure in Ashanti Region - LIPS report

A Center-right think tank, Liberal Institute for Policy Studies (LIPS) has revealed that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has unprecedented records in the provision of infrastructural projects in the health sector in the Ashanti Region compared to the opposition National Democratic Congress NDC.

According to the think tank, the NPP under President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo's regime has completed 13 hospital projects out of which nine are operational in the region.

LIPS in a press conference on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, disclosed that the National Democratic Congress NDC however completed zero hospital projects in their last eight-year rule.

According to them, the NDC during their eight years under the erstwhile John Evans Fiifi Mills and John Dramani Mahama's administration failed to operationalise one single hospital project in the Ashanti Region.

Giving statistics of hospital projects between the two major political parties in Ghana, the Executive Director for LIPS, Keskin Owusu-Poku disclosed that, while the NPP initiated 24 hospital projects in eight years, the NDC could only manage six.

He added that the NDC inherited only six hospital projects and initiated two but failed to complete any of the projects.

"The projects, the 800-bed KNUST Teaching Hospital, Bekwai hospital and the four Eurojet projects in the region started under the Kufuor regime.

"The NPP also inherited eight projects, initiated 24, making a total of 32 health infrastructural projects and completed 13 of which six were inherited facilities from previous governments."

He added that four out of the eight projects inherited by the NPP have been commissioned debunking claims of the NPP abandoning health projects it inherited from previous governments.