{"id":2912,"date":"2019-09-10T12:29:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T12:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/ghana\/?p=2912"},"modified":"2019-09-10T12:29:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T12:29:37","slug":"mp-slams-govt-over-nonchalant-attitude-towards-health-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/mp-slams-govt-over-nonchalant-attitude-towards-health-sector","title":{"rendered":"MP slams gov&#8217;t over nonchalant attitude towards Health Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Minority Spokesperson on Health, Kwabena Mintah Akando<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Minority Spokesperson on Health in Parliament, Kwabena Mintah Akando has accusing the Akufo-Addo government paying little attention to the Health sector.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TheMember of Parliament (MP) for the Juaboso in the Western region said the incumbent government is doing little to address the challenges within the health sector which needs urgent attention.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to\u00a0Citi News\u00a0ahead of a nationwide tour to inspect abandoned hospital projects today, Monday, Mr Akando said President Akufo-Addo and the New Patriotic Party have failed in the delivery of healthcare in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that the government is not giving the health sector the necessary attention it deserves. You remember this no-bed-syndrome and all that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that the former regime started a lot of infrastructure as far as the health sector is concerned. So as members of Parliament, we want to go down there and familiarize ourselves with the progress so far on the field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He expressed disappointment at the decline in health delivery in the country and urged the leaders of the country to live up to their promises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minority Spokesperson on Health, Kwabena Mintah Akando Minority Spokesperson on Health in Parliament, Kwabena Mintah Akando has accusing the Akufo-Addo government paying little attention to the Health sector.\u00a0 TheMember of Parliament (MP) for the Juaboso in the Western region said the incumbent government is doing little to address the challenges within the health sector which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[1910,1909,43],"class_list":["post-2912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-kwabena-mintah-akando","tag-minority-spokesperson-on-health","tag-nana-akufo-addo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - 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