President John Dramani Mahama has pledged to ensure the prompt completion and operationalization of the Sewua Hospital in the Ashanti Region.Speaking at the first Akwasidae celebration of the year at Manhyia Palace on Sunday, January 19, the President outlined his government’s commitment to addressing the challenges faced by the 250-bed facility.

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President Mahama recognized the critical role the Sewua Hospital will play in alleviating the overwhelming patient numbers at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), which is one of the largest and busiest hospitals in the Ashanti Region.He further pointed out that KATH, serving not just the Ashanti Region but neighboring areas, is currently operating well beyond its capacity and in desperate need of renovations.

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The President assured that the completion of Sewua Hospital would ease the pressure on KATH by relocating some patients, thus enabling the necessary renovations to proceed at KATH without affecting its day-to-day operations.“The Sewua Hospital is not operational because there is no electricity, there is no water, and the road to the hospital has not been constructed.

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I wish to assure you that we will tackle it immediately and make sure that we can open the doors of that hospital so that it will ease the pressure on Komfo Anokye.“We need to move some of the patients from Komfo Anokye to Sewua so that we can empty the infrastructure in Komfo Anokye and do the necessary renovations. It is difficult to do the renovations of Komfo Anokye when the hospital is working at full capacity.

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”The Sewua Hospital has been embroiled in political and contractual disputes. Former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo inaugurated the facility before leaving office, a decision challenged by the project contractor, Euroget De-Invest S.A. The contractor claimed the hospital was not prepared for commissioning, pointing to incomplete critical aspects of the project.

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This premature inauguration sparked public criticism and cast doubt on the government’s commitment to delivering fully operational healthcare infrastructure.

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