Minority asks MoH to take hands off New Legon Hospital 

The Minority in Parliament is urging the Ministry of Health (MoH) to stop interfering with and to take its hands off the management and control of the affairs of the Legon University Hospital and allow the University of Ghana to take full control as stipulated by the agreement with government on its construction.

This will help the good of this nation and the people for whose benefit it was constructed. This was in a statement by the Minority on the true status of the University of Ghana Hospital.

The statement explained that the hospital was constructed at the behest of the University and appropriate measures have been established to enable the university operate and manage the facility for academic purposes.  

It added that the prime mover of this idea, the first Dean of the Ghana Medical School, the late Professor Charles Easmon, together with Professor Honda of Japan anticipated funding from JICA for implementation of this medical complex. 

The Noguchi Memorial Institute was constructed in 1979 to mark the beginning of the development of that project.  

The rest of the plan was held in abeyance till 2011 when late President, Professor Evans Atta Mills cut the sod for the building of the hospital for the University.

This and many reasons the  Minority regards as unfortunate the overt gestures of the Minister of Health to derail well thought out plans by several governments over the years and to claim and wrest ownership of the Hospital from the University of Ghana.

The statement adds that no government, including the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government, should therefore attempt to politicize health adding that the nation will suffer greatly from that in lack of sustained development programmes to promote quality health and health care.  

The Minority also calls on the government to desist from undermining this agreement that has resulted in the construction of this magnificent hospital which to all intents and purposes, is poised to function as a teaching and learning Hospital of Excellence in Africa.

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