Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, a stalwart of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has expressed confidence that Ghanaians will fully appreciate President Akufo-Addo’s leadership once he leaves office in 2025.
In an interview on Face to Face on Channel One TV, Mr Otchere-Darko asserted that despite the current economic challenges and global circumstances, the achievements of Akufo-Addo’s administration will be recognised in the future.
He underscored the significant infrastructural developments that have taken place during Akufo-Addo’s seven-year tenure, particularly in the health sector.
According to Mr Otchere-Darko, no previous government has matched the level of progress made in healthcare under Akufo-Addo’s presidency.
“If you consider the challenges of leadership, the challenges of managing an economy such as ours and those challenges being compounded by the global challenges that faced them, I think when Ghanaians sit back, and analyse his period, after he’s gone, they will appreciate the Akufo-Addo’s presidency. When you are in there, you can’t really see that much.
“Take a few sectors, health, I can say boldly, based on numbers, that in the 4th Republic, no government has been able to do the kind of things we have witnessed under Akufo-Addo’s presidency. Within the health sector alone, in terms of facilities, in terms of that amazing thing that former President J.A Kufuor built, the National Health Insurance Scheme, where he has taken it.
“In terms of personnel, over the last seven to eight years, over 2,000 people have been employed in the health sector. Look at the number of doctors employed over the last few years, I believe over 22,000, nurses about 165,000 or so.
“The expansion that we have seen in the health sector, in terms of access to health, personnel, remunerations, so many polyclinics have been built,” Gabby told host Umaru Sanda Amadu.
Gabby stated that 95% of the hospitals under the Agenda 111 project are 65% complete.
“Almost 95% of them are at 65% of the completion stage,” he said.