The demolished La General Hospital has still not been reconstructed one and half years after President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo cut sod for its reconstruction. There is no sign of reconstruction on the site which once had the La General Hospital.
The La General Hospital which was housed in a five-storey building was pulled down after an assessment by the Ghana Health Service found it unfit for use as a health facility.
The hospital was therefore pulled down and the grounds cleared for the redevelopment of a new hospital not only fit for purpose but modern enough to meet 21st-century health needs.
The President then cut sod for the reconstruction of the facility on August 10, 2020, assuring the Chiefs and people of La that the hospital was going to be redone and commissioned soon enough to meet their health needs.
“This facility, in so many ways, complements the Greater Accra Regional Hospital at Ridge, and its upgrading will serve most people from Osu through La and Teshie, as well as residents living along the coastal corridor of Accra…Indeed, with admissions to this Hospital, arising from maternal health and other related complications, increasing from 20.5% in 2008 to 30% in 2017, and with pregnancy and related conditions, for the first time in the history of the life of this Hospital, being the number one cause of admission, require that we improve rapidly the facilities of this hospital,” the President had declared during the sod-cutting ceremony.
A credit facility from the Standard Chartered Bank of the United Kingdom, with an export credit guarantee from Sinosure of China, amounting to sixty-eight million euros (€68 million), with an insurance cover of three million, eight hundred and sixty thousand euros (€3,860,349.18) had been secured for the project according to the Government. Poly Changda, a Chinese Company was handed the project
But more than 18 months after the ceremony to recommence the construction, not visible physically has been done.
