The Health Service Workers Union (HSWU) plans to build a GH4m office complex at Effia Nkwanta, next to Twin City Radio, in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis, Ghana. BINMIC Construction Ltd. will complete the project, which includes a convention center, in two years. 

The administrator of Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital, Mr. Michael Danso, recognized the role management played in the project’s realization at the sod-cutting event on Wednesday and said, “It’s extremely near to our hearts.” 

He thought back to prior union attempts to construct the office in the local Communicable Diseases Unit (CDU). But management insisted on the transfer. 

“In order to provide you with a better land, we, therefore, made the decision to choose this location. This project has all of us enthusiastic, and we hope that it will move quickly so that we may all benefit,” Mr. Danso remarked. 

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Remarks on the proposed office complex project

The Regional Director of Health Services representative, Mr. Kwadwo Okyere Apenteng, Manager of Regional Medical Stores, expressed excitement about the HSWU project following the construction of a conference room at the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital. 

He said, “We think that developing a secretariat like this, which includes a conference facility, will undoubtedly be advantageous to both HSWU and the region.” 

Franklin Owusu Ansah, the HSWU’s general secretary, recounted the organization’s beginnings in 1944. And noted that all types of health sector employees, with the exception of physicians and nurses, belong to the union. 

According to Mr. Ansah, the decision was made to build a secretariat with a conference center in Effia Nkwanta. To serve the members of the Western North areas as part of an effort to reach out to members. Furthermore, Mr. Ansah claimed that the initiative had come to pass for the benefit of the union, and labor solidarity. And the health sector despite the difficulties associated with finding adequate land space. 

He added, “Today has been a crucial day in the Union’s history. Despite the fact that we have been a union for the entire time, we have always operated in rented spaces. However, thanks to the assistance of the regional director of health services at Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital, we now have this plot of land on which to build the office complex. We would like to think that in 24 months we should be able to finish it.”