Government Abandoned Hospitals, Government Crimes; Who Benefits?

I have been thinking about how to say this the way that after reading, our eyes will open and we will see politicians for who they really are. Do they get into office to be a government for the people or to continue to play political catch and throw?

Quite a number of Ghanaians who are sadly tax payers are dying every now and then from either corruption or negligence on the part of our government or politicians. Sustainable development is well explained on paper and on their political platforms but when it comes to implementing it to save the country and its people, well, you know the answer.

Number of Hospitals are either completed and unused or the millions of dollars pumped it health infrastructure are either way behind schedule which will cost extra later or these facilities are abandoned completely and the ordinary Ghanaian is dying silly deaths that could have been prevented should our leaders be concern about the welfare of the voters and tax payers. Unfortunately, they are not, since their first task in power is to make sure they paint oppositions black and keep them in opposition.

Since last year, the Citi Breakfast Show team has been following on abandoned hospital infrastructures in the country and over $1 billion dollars pumped into these various facilities by the government for the tax payer are facing politicians who seek first, their own interest.

Remember that the country have job availability issues to deal with and these facilities could have provide at least 5000 jobs for the health sector alone and serve about 5 million Ghanaians.

We all remember the troubles the health sector faced due to the unavailability of beds at some hospitals. So for a government to sit and watch what was commissioned by the previous government to go to waste to satisfy their political desires and care less about people dying should be an issue of concern for every Ghanaian, no matter your political or ethnic background.

In the face of all these, our government has no shame making noise about letting drones distribute medicines. I mean, are we seriously okay in this country? Are our leaders psychologically sound? Or should we just blame all these on spiritual attack on our leaders and go to sleep? I mean how do we abandon the basic necessities and go to be fancy, it is just immaturity.

The Maternity and the Paediatric block of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, about after 44 years has still not been completed. If we can’t complete all these projects, how on earth do we go commissioning new projects here and there? Is it the politics of it or just foolishness?

They do all these and fly outside to seek medical care, leaving us struggling for proper health care. Don’t we have rights as citizens of this country anymore? This nonsense must stop.

These are crimes committed by our government and they are walking about freely doing more harm, promising heavens on earth when we can’t even complete already commissioned health facilities. Shouldn’t someone be arrested for all these, imagining the number of Ghanaians who have died and who are still dying because of poor leadership, I think there should be a law that sends these empty power seeking mug heads to jail.

One question I ask is who benefits from all these bullshit the governments and political parties are dragging the country through. Definitely not the citizens but political parties who only seek to remain in power and the way to do that is to play politics to satisfy political files even though they are in power as the government for the people.

They play all these games to make the majority uneducated Ghanaians to believe that oppositions deserve to be in opposition, therefore if they complete any project commissioned by them, they are sure to get some sort of credit from the people and that’s one thing they can’t just allow even if it means allowing the people they claim to be fighting for die silly deaths.

They can’t turn this country into their political arena and watch as the tax payer suffers. This cannot continue, Ghanaians must wake up, Ghanaians must break their silence and speak for their country.

I have said my part, let hear your voice.

Joseph Yaw Mawunyo

Writer, Blogger and a student at the University of Education, Winneba