Weija Gbawe Residents Demand Opening of Completed Children’s Hospital
Residents of Weija Gbawe have staged a protest over the continued closure of a fully completed 120-bed Children’s Specialist Hospital, calling on authorities to immediately commission and operationalise the facility.
The demonstration, saw scores of residents clad in red and black symbols of urgency and distress march through principal streets to register their frustration over what they described as an unjustifiable delay in opening the hospital.
According to the protesters, the facility, which was completed nearly two years ago, remains idle despite being fully equipped with modern medical infrastructure, including a CT scanner, operating theatres, and laboratories. They argue that the delay is worsening access to quality paediatric healthcare in the municipality and beyond.
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