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VP Mahama lauds health workers
Obuasi, July 21, Ghanadot/GNA - The Vice President on
Saturday told health workers of the government's efforts to
create jobs for the country's unemployed youth and also
support the expansion of the health sector, health extension
workers under the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP)
and called on the nurses to give them the maximum
encouragement and support in their duties.
he also commended the efforts
health workers are making towards the promotion of quality
health care delivery in the country.
He said the contributions of health workers and other
service providers were supplementing the government efforts
at addressing the welfare needs of Ghanaians.
The Vice President was addressing the management, nurses and
staff of the Obuasi Government Hospital as part of his
working visit to the Obuasi municipality. The Vice President
had earlier inspected a 1.5 billion cedis, 25-bed children's
ward being built by the Municipal Assembly for the hospital.
Messrs George Senefo-Antwi, the Project Manager and Patrick
Thompson, Project Engineer of the Mining and Building
Contractors (MBC), the contractor of the project told the
Vice President that the project was about 80 per cent
complete.
Alhaji Mahama commended the management, nurses and staff of
the hospital for their contribution towards the health care
delivery of the people in the municipality.
"Let us all see how we can bring quality health care to our
people", he said.
He gave the assurance that the Kufuor administration was
doing everything possible to ensure that health workers were
motivated to enable them to carry out their good works to
the nation.
The Vice-President was hopeful that the children's ward was
going to add value to the operations of the hospital and
further help to improve health care delivery services at the
municipality.
Alhaji Mahama called on all Ghanaians to embrace the
National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) since it was the
easy way to access affordable health care.
GNA
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