The University Of Ghana Medical Centre will receive a phase lift which will see it reach completion after the Parliament of Ghana approves a 47 million Euro loan for the project. the second phase of this project is meant to add facilities like a Cardio-vascular and Open heart surgery unit and a neurosurgery unit, and a VIP maternity and private floor.
After several months of being the topic of discusion for the past year and and half for being partly inoperable after the completion of its first phase. Contributing to the motion on the loan, Minority member of the Finance Committee and MP for Ho Central, Benjamin Kpodo said government should make the centre run and pay for part of the loan since it has immense potential to generate its own revenue.
“We think that there should be an on-lending agreement for a question of the loan. We have done it in the past. For instance the Kumasi-Kejetia market project. Part of it has been on-lend while the rest will be paid for by the government so I think that we should consider on-lending part of the facility to the medical centre so that there will be accountability.”
“There will be an ex-crow as my colleague has said earlier where some of the revenues will be lodged into but if all the amounts are paid into the consolidated fund without the control of the medical centre, it is possible that it will also suffer from capping of the internally generated funds and it will become very difficult for the hospital to function.
But the Chairman of Health Committee of Parliament, Dr Kwabena Twum Nuamah, believes the revenue generated from the hospital must rather go into properly maintaining the facility so as to boost its operations.
“As part of the phase two, one of the major strategies in there is to equip these facilities with income generating components so that they will be able to make enough revenue to maintain and sustain these state of the art equipment to make them functional all the time.”
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