Chief Executive Officer of (CEO) of the Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors and Managing Trustee of Ghana Covid-19 Private Sector Fund, Senyo Hosi has charged Government to take some learnings from the Ghana Infectious Disease Centre (GIDC) project.
According to him, the Government can learn a thing or two about project management and cost management.
He bemoaned that usually Government projects which are not even sophisticated are constructed using huge sums of money when such projects could have been less costly.
Speaking to Sefa Danquah on e.TV Ghana’s ‘Fact Sheet’ show, he shared: “Government can learn about project management and cost management with projects from what happened with us building the GIDC.
I mean for a project to have been delivered that way it tells you something. We have similar projects going for as much as fifteen, twenty or thirty-two million dollars. It tells you how many more of these we can actually deliver if we actually cut down on the waste and the inefficiencies in our procurement system and corruption”.
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Senyo Hosi noted that when he heard of Government’s decision to build 88 district hospitals, he was happy about it. However, he is quite disappointed that till now, Government has not engaged the private sector in the building of the Infectious Disease Centre on how these 88 hospitals can be constructed with less cost.
The 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