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Engineer working on the 500-bed military hospital at Afari in the Atwima Nwabiagya Municipality, Ashanti Region, Mr. Kwadwo Baffoe Donkor has assured President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo that the facility will be ready and handed over to government by November 2020.

According to him, major component of the facility to be completed include out-patient department, wards, casualty/emergency unit among others. 

The Executive Officer of Euroget De-Invest in charge of the project, Dr. Said Deraz stated it is currently at 85% completion level, adding the remaining works will be completed by March next year.

Dr. Deraz made this known when President Akufo-Addo paid a working visit to the Ashanti Region.

He said when Euroget De-Invest hands over the first part, it will take between two and four months to train the end users of the equipment and installations to facilitate an efficient system saying "the end of that training regime, the full hospital would be completed and totally handed over to the government”.

The President visited the Region with an entourage including the Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto and former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, Mr. Kwabena Agyapong.

They were received at the project site by the Minister of Defence, Mr. Dominic Nitiwul and the Chief of Defence Staff, Lt Gen. Obed Akwa.

The President expressed satisfaction with work on the project and charged the contractors to deliver according to schedule.

The Afari Military Hospital is one of nine hospital projects being constructed by the Egyptian investment company across the country; two have already been delivered.

Resident Manager, Mr. Abou Shamaa also said the "hospital scope will become Ghana's second Military hospital intended to complement the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital as the chief referral medical facilities in the Ashanti Region and all of the middle belt. Beyond that, the new hospital's specialist capacity will be accessed by patients from the neighboring environment outside of the Region". 

He stressed that the hospital, when completed, will have 17 Specialist clinics, pharmacy units, theatres, laboratories, kitchen, laundry and morgue among others.

"It also has medical waste, sewage and water treatment plants, a 54-flat staff accommodation, a gas-generating system, a parking lot for more than 700 cars, and a helipad. It has a six-kilometre internal road network and 40-acre landscaping on the 260,000-metre square project area," Mr. Shamaa added.