Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has played the impact of the government’s touted digitalisation drive, citing widespread economic hardship as needing more attention.
Sammy Gyamfi posted on Facebook after Tuesday’s lecture by Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia that while digitalisation is good, the introduction of excessive taxes, steep increases in fuel prices under the current administration renders the initiative useless.
“Of what use is E-Pharmacy to the ordinary Ghanaian who is reeling under excruciating economic hardships as a result of the introduction of excessive taxes and steep increases in fuel prices by the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government?
“Of what use is “E-this and E-that” to the ordinary Ghanaian who is jobless and cannot even afford to buy mobile data to access these digital platforms?” he wrote.
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Dr Bawumia on Tuesday disclosed that government is in the process of digitising the operations of pharmacies in the country.
The e-pharmacy project, which is scheduled to be launched before the end of the year, will make Ghana the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to have a national scale e-pharmacy and one of only a few countries in the world.
Dr Bawumia said this when he spoke at Ashesi University on ‘Transforming an Economy Through Digitalisation – The Ghana Story’.
Explaining the rationale behind the initiative, Dr Bawumia said “patients or people generally face difficulties when trying to find medicines in pharmacies. They have no way of knowing which pharmacies have the medicines”.
But Sammy Gyamfi suggests this is not the most pressing thing for the ordinary Ghanaian on the street.
“Ghana’s economy is currently in tatters due to the crass economic mismanagement of the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia NPP government. Our ever-rising Public Debt has reached an alarmingly unsustainable level. The rate of unemployment is on the rise and cost of living has become unbearable for the vast majority of Ghanaians. “kromAyeshe” and Ghanaians are suffering,” he said.
Read his full post below.
Of what use is E-Pharmacy to the ordinary Ghanaian who is reeling under excruciating economic hardships as a result of the introduction of excessive taxes and steep increases in fuel prices by the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government?
Of what use is “E-this and E-that” to the ordinary Ghanaian who is jobless and cannot even afford to buy mobile data to access these digital platforms?
Digitalisation is good. It helps people to do things effectively with ease. The NDC/Mahama administration has a superior record in that regard. See https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=416276186567141&id=100045542882464 . But digitalization is useless, unless it is linked to the economic empowerment of the people.
Ghana’s economy is currently in tatters due to the crass economic mismanagement of the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia NPP government. Our ever-rising Public Debt has reached an alarmingly unsustainable level. The rate of unemployment is on the rise and cost of living has become unbearable for the vast majority of Ghanaians. “kromAyeshe” and Ghanaians are suffering.
The answer to these problems doesn’t lie in the organization of lectures on digitalization. Dr. Bawuliar should sit up, stop peddling falsehood and fix our broken economy. That’s what Ghanaians expect from him as Head of the Economic Management Team of government.