Managing Trustee of the Ghana COVID-19 Private Sector Fund, Senyo Hosi, has described corruption as just a flowery term for thievery.
According to him, corruption is a dishonest or fraudulent act by the people in power which negatively affects the masses.
Senyo Hosi believes that such thievery has robbed Ghanaians of the needed infrastructural developments.
Speaking to Sefa Danquah on e.TV Ghana’s Fact Sheet show, he said: “In some of the [Governmental] projects when you hear of the figures involved, the only thing you can think of is thievery. We should stop calling it corruption. It is thievery. Because if we could do what we did [GIPC project] but in some cases we build hospitals five times the cost of this project we did with less sophistication, then it is a mind-boggling thing.
I am very disappointed in Government in this context. That conversation has not even been had”.
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He lamented the lack of engagement by the Government with the private sector after the construction of eighty-eight district hospitals was announced.
“It tells me the level of our understanding of governance in Ghana. The focus is more on the procurement side of things than the delivery of social services sustainably and impactfully to our people and it is painful”, he added.
The Ghana Infectious Disease Centre (GIDC), the first infectious disease centre in the country, is an initiative of the Ghana Covid-19 Private Sector Fund.
The Ghana Infectious Disease Centre (GIDC) located at the Ga East Municipal Hospital in Accra was commissioned in July and has so far being used as a treatment centre for critically ill Covid-19 patients.
The hospital was built in a record time of 100 days. Over 700 square meters of water-efficient landscaping was embedded throughout the hospital to provide as pleasant of an environment as possible for patient recovery.
By: Alberta Dorcas N D Armah