President Akufo-Addo has commissioned a 300-bed capability younger troopers’ block on the 37 Navy Hospital.
Commissioning the Block on Wednesday, the President said that the 37 Navy Hospital, often, finds itself with a number of younger troopers posted to the Unit to start their primary coaching in medical care.
Through the years, he defined that “the quantity has been growing with nowhere to accommodate these younger troopers, as they must be on the hospital premises to be taught their commerce.”
Based on the President, it is for that reason that then Director Basic of Well being Providers, Brigadier Basic Ralph Ametepe, conceived and began this undertaking in 2016.
“With using internally generated funds, the undertaking stood at 50% full in 2018. Working out of funds in 2018 meant that the undertaking stalled.
“It’s good to notice that successive Administrators on the Hospital continued the undertaking, albeit at a gradual tempo, till the undertaking was revived in 2021 by the present Chief of Defence Employees,” he mentioned.
The President continued, “I’m advised that the Chief of Defence Employees, in 2021, made an enchantment to the Jospong Group of Firms to help with the completion of this block, a request which was duly heard and answered.
“Jospong Group of Firms agreed to finish the undertaking as a Company Social Accountability for free of charge to the Ghana Armed Forces. Jospong, effectively achieved, ayekoo!!”
While assuring the officers, women and men of the Armed Forces of Authorities’s dedication to their welfare and well-being, he famous that since in assumption of workplace in 2017, his Authorities rolled out a variety of measures to assist cope with these challenges dealing with the Armed Forces.
These embody phases one and two of the Barracks Regeneration Undertaking and the Navy Housing Tasks, which I launched in 2017 and 2021, respectively.
Authorities can be striving to finish stalled SSNIT and Ministry of Defence tasks commenced in 2016 so as to add to the lodging inventory.
These, along with ongoing lodging tasks, he defined, will present some 3,000 lodging models for the Ghana Armed Forces quickly, and it is going to be the most important provision of lodging models for the Armed Forces.
“We’ll proceed to remain true to the pledges we made in our 2016 and 2020 manifestoes, which introduced into and retained my social gathering, the New Patriotic Occasion, and me, in workplace.
“Authorities will proceed to assemble much-needed lodging infrastructure to allow the 37 Navy Hospital and the Ghana Armed Forces to carry out its position as required by the Ghanaian folks,” the President mentioned.
Later within the day, President Akufo-Addo additionally commissioned a brand new administration block for the Chief of Defence Employees, at Burma Camp, and likewise handed over a UN Stage IV Subject Hospital to the Ghana Armed Forces.
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