A former Deputy of Health Minister, Rojo Mettle Nunoo, has disclosed that all was set for the UG Medical Centre to be operational before the NDC left office.
According to him, the previous government had an adequate plan in place on the way forward for the Centre.
“Government will pay salaries, so we got the Public Service Commission to agree to the establishment of the hospital and 28,000 people applied to be staff of the hospital. We did interviews and the first round of over 1,400 or so people were identified, and appointment letters were going to be given. The Fair Wages Commission had also agreed with the salary structure of the hospital and given approval.”
Speaking on an Accra based radio station Citi FM, Mr. Nunoo said about 1,400 personnel had already been shortlisted and ready to be recruited as staff of the University of Ghana Medical Centre before the John Mahama administration was kicked out of office.
He said a total of 28,000 applied to work for the Centre, out of which 1,400 were selected.
“The Ministry of Finance approved and gave authorization for the university to go ahead and issue appointment letters to the 1,400 or so people who were supposed to be engaged at the level of consultants, specialists, nurses, biomedical engineers, laboratory technicians, sanitary people, I mean everything had been put in place,” he noted.
Mr Nunoo added that, what was required was for government to guarantee that while “we are going through all these processes, our water, electricity and utilities will be underwritten against a payment plan for us to service any facility that government gives us. What was left was for the Ministry of Health was to acquire a loan facility to enable them “complete some empty shell spaces, fully equip the hospital, buy essential drugs and consumables to run the hospital, and also to do further training of staff required to run the hospital.”
He said the plan was that after such processes were completed; they will begin treating few patients and continue expanding until the Medical Centre run at 100 percent capacity.
Source: Graphic.com
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What workable or feasible plan has the NDC put in place since its inception in 1992? NDC to recruit Legon Hospital staff? Incredible! To put the types of Opuni and Woyome in charge? Apuu! Yes, that explains the thousands of letters, protests, press statements and the like. How can a/an slapp, inullt, corruptt, non-reading, incoherent, inconsistent, dead goatt, guinea fowl, etc party run a university hospital hospital in this Ghana of the New Vision? Please Rojo let our ears rest.
the one running the hospital should pay salaries.
If left for the university to run definitely certain class of people in the hospital vicinity will not be able to access. Only staff, students lecturers and their relatives. This will b unfair since its the govt who guaranteed the loan.
This new Govt wants to destroy what NDC and Univ of Ghana had toiled to achieve. Shame on them. Incompetent and UN-AWARE govt. Open your eyes Ghanaians and kick this corr-pt people out of existence.
Plans? you only develop plans when in opposition. Since you left the Health Ministry, ask your successors whether they knew about the 'PLAN". UG is Government, MOH is government so whats the fuss about. Cheapside politrics.
How were the staff selected? Was it advertised in the newspapers? Or only relatives of some people with the necessary connections were employed as happens in Ghana all the time? Is the hospital going to pay the salaries of the staff, or the government will do that? My point is that, if the government will pay the salaries of all the workers, then government should have a say in how people are employed and how the facility is managed to benefit all Ghanaians. I am afraid the university will only cater for their community members driving away people they would consider as 'strangers' Think about these things.
Did your government advertised for these vacancies.
NPP is misbehaving as all of the world Hospital on University land are run by the University so why would we have such a problem in the government to act like they did not understand . This is absurdity and uselessness.
28,000 applied and 1400 were selected?? Oh, so the problem of over-subscription didn't start with the Immigration Service....Hmmmmmmm.
Deputy of Health Minister paa!!!