Each of the 111 hospitals to be constructed by the Akufo-Addo government will cost $16.88 million.

They will be completed in 18 months.

Laying the brick for the project to begin on Tuesday, 17 August 2021, at Trede in the Atwima Kwanwoma District of the Ashanti Region, President Akufo-Addo said: “So far, sites have been identified for 88 of the 111 hospitals and after cutting the sod, work on the other 87 sites will also commence today.”

“The acquisition of the remaining 13 sites will be completed shortly for work to begin”, he noted.

He added: “Each hospital is being constructed at a cost of $16.88 million, i.e. $12.88 million for construction and $4 million for medical equipment and all the hospitals are to be completed in 18 months and works will begin on the regional and other hospitals in the latter part of the year.”

Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah recently announced that the government of Ghana has set aside US$100 million for the project.

Agenda 111 aims to build 101 district hospitals in areas without one. 

It also involves the provision of two specialised hospitals for the middle and northern belts, the redevelopment of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital plus the development of six new regional hospitals and one extra regional hospital for the Western Region. 

Briefing the media about the project on Sunday, 15 August 2021, Mr Oppong Nkrumah said the government of Ghana calls on all, especially the local beneficiary communities, traditional leaders, the youth and all actors in the local health sector, to give their full support to this project for the benefit of the Ghanaian people. 

“Currently, commencement funding of US$100 million has been made available to the project through the Ghana Infrastructure Investment Funds”, Mr Oppong Nkrumah told journalists.

He said: “For the project itself, it is budgeted at nearly US$17 million for each of the district hospitals”.

“The district and specialised hospitals are being funded by the government of Ghana but for the regional hospitals, EPC arrangements have been made” for them, he noted.

Mr Oppong Nkrumah said: “This project will naturally go across three budget cycles”.

“So, allocations have been made across the various budget cycles in the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework for what the government of Ghana is bearing”, he noted.

Out of the projected US$17 million for each district hospital, US$12.88 million will cater for civil works, with about US$4 million going into equipment required.

Mr Oppong Nkrumah noted that “contractors for the projects have been secured, with the first set beginning work this week”.

“We are starting off on Tuesday at Trade and the other contractors, soon afterwards, will also begin theirs at the various districts across the country,” he added.