Member of Parliament for South Dayi, Rockson Dafeamekpor, has described the Nana Akufo-Addo-led administration as a struggling government.Â
Speaking on Good Morning Ghana on Thursday, September 30, 2021, Dafeamekpor noted that the struggle of this NPP administration is most pronounced in the health sector.
He stated, for instance, that the government was unable to pay nurses' allowances and doesn't seem to have any intention of making such payments anytime soon.
“We just discovered that even the systematic arrangement to make sure that the allowance of nurses is paid has not been installedâ€, he said.
“This is a government that wants to build new health infrastructures and yet will abandon existing ones at various levels of completion,†he said.
According to him, the current behaviour of the government towards the health sector is unwise.
Dafeamekpor mentioned that the Volta Regional Hospital in Ho lacks some basic necessities in healthcare administration such as oxygen, marking this out as a huge problem in the region.
He said it was unfortunate that the government has turned a blind eye to the situation.
The NDC Member of Parliament also blamed the recent increase in the HIV/AIDS prevalence rate on the government saying the government had abandoned the entire approach to sensitisation in HIV/AIDS management issues among the people.
A statement released by the Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) showed an increase in the HIV/AIDS prevalence rate at the end of 2020.
The survey showed a total of 342,307 people infected with the virus with 122,321 of them being males and 219,986 them being females.
He claimed the NPP administration is not bothered about the increased prevalence rate since the government hasn’t released any statement in relation to the increased number of infected people in the state.
Rockson Dafeamekpor further stated that procurement in the health sector has been bastardised.
He said the government doesn’t follow the laid down procedures in the Procurement Act when making health sector procurements.
He rated the government’s approach to improving the health sector as next to zero.