According to the minister, government is still in the preliminary stages of the project with lands being acquired in the various districts. “We are still in the preliminary stages… We have asked all the districts without hospitals to give us land, they have all submitted. “There are 88 districts in our country without district hospitals; we have six (6) new regions without regional hospitals; we do not have five infectious disease control centres dotted across the country; and we do not have enough testing and isolation centres for diseases like COVID-19. That is why Government has decided to undertake a major investment in our healthcare infrastructure, the largest in our history. We will, this year, begin constructing 88 hospitals in the districts without hospitals,” he said.

Source: GhanaWeb August 23, 2020 06:33 UTC