Former President John Mahama is intensifying his campaign for a comeback in 2021 with a promise to build a hospital ship to improve healthcare delivery if elected on December 7, 2020.
“We will build a new Onipa Nua Hospital Ship and deploy it to provide medical services to the inaccessible riverine and fishing communities on the inland Volta waterways,” Mr Mahama said.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate made the promise on Thursday, June 18, 2020, during one of his Facebook Live sessions.
He made the promise to build and deploy the hospital ship after criticizing President Nana Akufo-Addo for abandoning some of his innovative policies that were aimed at improving healthcare delivery in the country.
He blamed the current administration for abandoning the Onua Do Mobile Vans that his administration introduced in 2015.
“These were vans meant to provide medical outreach services . . . in underserved and hard to reach areas of the country. But the vans have been left at the vagaries of the weather,” he stated.
He said the vans were designed to deliver specialized services in ophthalmology, dentistry, mammograms and general medicine by visiting rural and far-to-reach communities of the country but they have not been put to that use since he left office.
He said since the Akufo-Addo government has deliberately abandoned the specialized vans at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.
He, therefore, promised to rehabilitate these dilapidated mobile clinics and expand the number to care for all 16 regions of the country to enable government “take healthcare to the doorsteps of all our people, even in the remotest parts of our country”.
Source: Ghanaweb
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Hahahaha oh John! Building Onipa Nua Hospital Ship 🛳 in capacity as what? Airbus Government Official 1 or what?. Incompetent NDC fought against drones for blood 🩸 delivery and now ship? What a funny promise!!! Anyway agenda 88 would have been in motion so don’t worry. NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU
But why this NDC obsession with hospitals? Why? Or there is plenty chop,chop in putting up hospitals? Wont we educate our children? Wont we feed ourselves? Wont we build more and better roads and railway lines? Wont we improve on our water and energy resources? Why always hospitals? Remember you need well educated, and trained specialists and professionals to make those hospital structures functional. We need to refocus our politics and stop this cheap propaganda and promises. They are for illiterates and that is why free SHS must be made to work so majority of our population get educated and stop depending on hand outs from con men parading as politicians.
Still campaigning on infrastructure. You have not learnt any lessons from your heavy defeat. You cannot think of anything else besides infrastructure? Why are you so !nc0mpetent?
Why didn't you do it the first time you came to power? You came to enrich yourself and you succeeded in doing that when you were in power so go and enjoy the money with your family and friend.
Heeerrrhhhhhhhh, Papa mahama wei paaaa wahu ? Common guinea fowl you couldn't not keep then in Ghana but you can build ship ? We remember how you bought the airbus, you want to get ship on top ?
Mr Mahama and NDC can build Aero plane hospitals for all we care. This is your end Mr Mahama, nobody in present Ghana will fall for this lie.
day dreamer Government Official 1, we don't wash our faces upwards, even ambulance you could not purchase how much more ship hospital, this one plenty chop-chop with free fishing boat for your self. Give us a break Mr. Ford, once again day dreamer
you were in office for 8 good years, you couldn't put those non existent vans to use, what stopped you from putting them to use? I can't think far! Mahama what unfinished business at all do you need to come back to do in 4 years, if 8 solid years wasn't enough for you? I smell onion. Barima beyebi na wanbeye ninyinaa.
Thank you very much Mr. Flag bearer, but we done like it.
Your government procured ambulances were not fit to even carry dead bodies...... You can even procure aeroplane hospital. J0ker.... You are c0rrupt and incompetent. You took 5 million euros procuring aircraft for our Airforce from Airbus.