Agotime-Ziope District to get ultra-modern hospital

Mr. Michael Kobla Adaho, Agotime-Ziope District Chief Executive (DCE) on Tuesday said plans are far advanced towards the construction of an ultra-modern hospital at Kpetoe, the District capital.

He said a delegation from Ho and Accra had already inspected a proposed site and were examining documents for the take-off of the project.

Mr. Adzaho said this at a Town Hall meeting organised by the Assembly to brief the public on projects and programmes of the Assembly.

He said the ever growing health needs of people in the District necessitated the facility to improve healthcare delivery.

“Our health needs are now beyond two clinics, CHPS compound and a maternity block. We simply need a good hospital where our pregnant women especially will be taken care of comfortably,” Mr. Adzaho stated.

He said the District is growing at “a very fast rate” with a total of 96 projects distributed in the traditional areas forming the District.

Mr. Adzaho particularly mentioned 20 projects under good governance consisting of an assembly complex, street lighting, drilling of boreholes, tourist receptive facility and bungalows for heads of institutions which were all completed by the National Democratic Congress.

He said the creation of the Adaklu District out of the Adaklu-Anyigbe District would further speed up the development of Agotime-Ziope.

The DCE however, said that would be possible if the people work hard and improve on the Assembly’s internally generated fund.

Mr. Adzaho commended traditional authorities and heads of decentralised institutions for their support to the Assembly and promoting peace in the area.

He catalogued a lot of infrastructure projects and government’s social intervention programmes the District was benefiting from and urged the people to retain the government in power for accelerated development in the December 7 General Election.

Mrs Juliana Azumah-Mensah, Member of Parliament for Ho-East said “the Better Ghana Agenda is very real” and that many rural communities were benefiting from basic social amenities and other social and economic interventions from government.

She therefore called on the people to publicise the achievements of the government and retain it in power to do more.

Mrs Azumah-Mensah also mentioned some projects she initiated and sponsored and assured the people that she would fulfill her promise to construct a bus stop in the central business area of Kpetoe.

During the open forum, Nene Nuer Keteku III, Konor of Agotime called on Parliament to give a second thought of the ban on the use of motorcycles for commercial activities.

He advised that activities of people involved in the business should be moderated and coordinated to benefit society.

Madam Felicia Akuaku, an Educationist appealed to the Assembly to construct teachers’ quarters to keep the personnel at post to improve academic performance.**