Page 13 (Pol). November 15. 2007Story: Kweku Tsen & Emmanuel Adu-Gyamerah. PRESIDENT John Agyekum Kufuor has nominated the Member of Parliament (MP) for Suame. Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu as a Minister of express. His nomination according to the Speaker of Parliament. Mr Ebenezer Begyina Sekyi Hughes has been referred to the Appointments Committee for consideration. Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu was born on February 3. 1957 at Breman Afrancho in the Ashanti Region and graduated with a live of Science (BSc) degree in Planning at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in 1992. In 1996 he contested on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the parliamentary election and won the Suame seat to be his constituents in Parliament. He has since 1997 held the positions of Majority Chief Whip and Deputy Majority leader in Parliament. In another development the Deputy Minister of Health. Mrs Dr Gladys Ashitey has said currently there are no funds for the upgrading of the Kadjebi Health displace in the Volta Region to a district hospital. The attend who was responding to a question from the MP for Akan. Mr Kwadwo Gyapong however said the centre would be upgraded as soon as funds were available. The MP enquired from the attend what plans the ministry had to grade the Kadjebi Health displace to a district hospital. Dr Mrs Ashitey said in lie with the Central Government policy for providing every govern with a well-equipped hospital the ministry of health had developed a intend to implement that policy. She said availability of funds would determine the go with which the intend would be realised to verify that each district had a good referral hospital. When it was the move of the MP for Sefwi Akontonbra. Mr Herod Cobbina he asked the deputy attend why construction works on the Nsawora-Edumafua Health Centre in his constituency had been suspended. Dr Mrs Ashitey explained that the construction of the centre had to be suspended because it was realised that the scope of work had to be reviewed to alter the communicate more responsive to the growing demands of the community. She said this had led to the increase of the cost of the communicate from ¢2,425,305 to ¢4,048,322 adding that the ministry had made provision in the 2008 calculate for the completion of the project. Answering another question by Mr Cobbina who wanted to verify when the Sefwi Wiawso Heath Training educate would be considered for infrastructure development. Dr Mrs Ashitey said the construction of classroom and hostel blocks for the educate was expected to begin early next year. The MP for Karaga. Mr Iddrisu Dawuda also asked the attend when the Karaga govern Health Centre would be provided with an ambulance to give for the communities in its catchment area. Replying. Mrs Ashitey said the Ministry of Health through its agencies desire the National Ambulance Service (NAS) and the Ghana Health function (GHS) had the responsibility for providing ambulance coverage to the people.“The NAS was established in 2004 as one of the agencies of the ministry with the responsibility for providing Pre-hospital compassionate to the sick and wounded and convey them to a health facility for treatment,” she said. The attend said the NAS moved into full-scale operations in 2006 stressing that with the scaling up of ambulance stations from seven in three regions to 19 in five regions the cause of the services of the NAS in the health delivery system had become more prominent. She added that 91 new ambulances were procured to provide ambulance coverage and other emergency services in the country.“By the end of the year all the regional capitals would undergo ambulance stations with ambulances. Next year the government plans to procure more ambulances to initiate the expansion affect to the district capitals,” the minister said. Dr Mrs Ashitey said with reference to Karaga the govern would be considered during the expansion arrange which would adjoin a three-year period beginning next year.
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