Fact-checking Sammy Gyamfi's bare-faced lies on NPP government's record on district hospitals

Dear Sammy Gyamfi,

It is a height of patronizing condescension and outright disrespect for you to look discerning Ghanaians in the face and engage in your typical stock-in-trade of fabrications and invention of your own set of 'facts' to shore up your ailing narratives.

In the course of your One-on-One with Benjamin Akakpo on Joynews, you intimated, inter alia, with a brazen impudence, how the government of H.E Nana Addo Dankwa in the history of this country has not built a single district hospital. It is a heavy shocker for me how you and your cohorts deliberately cook up cheap lies in your unholy propaganda factory and shamelessly want to pollute the discourse with them.

Unfortunately for you, it won't stick. You got away with this one on Joynews because you were certainly having a field day in a monologue on that national platform.

It has been the abiding determination of the government of President Akufo-Addo to revive and strengthen our healthcare delivery system by delivering the physical infrastructure, technology, and intervention policies that will ensure that the accessibility of basic healthcare is not the reserve of only the well-to-do in the society.

It is for this reason when the NDC scrapped the Nursing training allowances, this government restored them and still continues to fulfill them in the face of grave economic adversity. It is for the same reason this government has restructured, improved, and digitized the National Health Insurance Scheme after the NDC run its moribund.

For the NPP, physical infrastructure is not the end in health delivery but what is most critical is the accessibility and affordability of the Ghanaians.

You were emphatic and confident about that dreadful lie, not even the interventions from Benjamin Akakpo, the host was forceful enough for you to backtrack. This government, in terms of investment in the health prevention and protection mechanism, has got no coequal.

Not just only physical infrastructure, but vaccines, PPEs, testing infrastructure, direct amelioration transfers, and many more. On the score of District Hospitals, the records will speak for themselves. The projects cataloged below are this government's legacy you have refused to see:

1. Tolon District Hospital
2. Construction Of €70m 600-bed Eastern Regional Hospital With Teaching Facilities at Effiduase
4. Ongoing Construction of 4-Storey 100 Bed Capacity Hospital At Tema Manhea
5. Adaklu District Health Centre
6. Completed Construction of Twifo Praso Government Hospital
7. Ongoing Construction of District Hospital in Kpeve in South Dayi District
8. Construction Of Walewale Government Hospital
9. Construction of Maase Hospital, Afigya Kwabre South District
10. Construction of Kumawu District Hospital for Sekyere Kumawu District Hospital(ongoing)
11. Completed Construction of Akropong Hospital
12. Upgrading and Extension Works At Kwahu Government Hospital
13. Ongoing Construction of 500 Bed Military Hospital At Afari In Atwima Nwabiagya South District
14. Construction of District Hospital At Akontombra In Sefwi Akontombra District
15. Yilo Krobo District Hospital
16. Somanya District Hospital
17. Central Gonja District Hospital
18. Ketu-North District Hospital

The list is endless. It is important to note that, no Agenda 111 project has been mentioned here. Agenda 111 is yet another huge investment government is making to plug the gaps in our healthcare system.

Typical of you, you will raise eyebrows but be convinced that when you do any of the claims above we shall be ready to lower the brows and expose your distortions further.

Indubitable, there are not less than 1,206 health sector infrastructural projects across the length and breadth of the country; with more than 800 projects completed and the rest ongoing. Your misrepresentations, packaged falsities, and brass distortions are seemingly gaining some momentum recently.

Perhaps, it is a passport to your reelection in view of the impending internal parry reorganization exercise. The fact is; lies are temporary and the truth is the ultimate winner.