Management of the Ghana COVID-19 Private Sector Fund has set June 30 this year to complete the facility.
The project, located at the Ga East Municipal Hospital, will be the country’s National Coronavirus Treatment Centre and will further strengthen and enhance government’s ability to deal with the spread of the pandemic.
The project, which was started on April 17, was supposed to have been completed on May 31, 2020 but could not happen as planned.
The projected time was six weeks but surveyor Yan Agbeyegah told Adom News reporter, Kwame Kulenu that the facility has delayed due to some reasons that came up in the middle of work.
“We gave ourselves six weeks but when we started work, we requested from Ghana Medical Association that we should add Intensive Care Unit (ICU) to the facility, so 21 beds ICU Centre has been added,” he said.
He also stated that the standard of laboratory at the facility was little lower, but Noguchi requested it is made to their standard.
“During the lockdown, we got materials quickly though shops were closed, we got the materials with the help of the military but after the lockdown was lifted, we had to compete with other contractors from our suppliers, all these contributed to the delay of the project,” he added.
Surveyor Agbeyegah was optimistic that the project would be completed by end of June, 2020.