The Holy Family Nursing Training College (NTC) had cut sod for the construction of the new proposed building and lecture blocks.
At the grand durbar held to commence the project on Thursday, February 16, the Board Chairman of the Holy Family NTC, Professor S. I. K. Ampadu, established that the idea of the newly proposed lecture blocks forms part of the school’s 20-year existence.
He stated that the school decided to expand its facilities to increase student enrollment.
He added that a request was made to Obomeng Hene, Nana Effah Opinamang III, who, in his wisdom, gifted the school a 10-acre plot of land to expand its operations.
Currently, the Holy Family NTC stands on one and a half acres of land, making its expansion and consumption by more students difficult.
“Initially, we are standing on a half acre of land. We were finding it difficult to expand our intake of students. This year will be our 20th anniversary of existence. One of our dreams is to expand our intake and, therefore, we made a request to Nana Obomeng Hene who gifted us this land. Over the last few years, we’ve had our planning and design already and it’s our greatest pleasure to have cut sod for the construction of the proposed lecture blocks. This will also nurture our ultimate objective of growing and expanding our operations. Its marks the first step to the growth of Holy Family NTC”, he stated.
The Chief of Obomeng Nana Effah Opinamang III, for his part, stated that it is critical to improve health care as education progresses in the country, thus the decision to provide the NTC with the land.
“Because we want the community to develop, we opted to grant their request. You cannot talk about education without mentioning health care. They go together and that’s why we chose to assist the school. I pledge that the Traditional authority will do its best to ensure that we see the realization of this project. We needed to do this to expand the intake of students”, he indicated.
He also urged the central government to allow Ghanaian nurses to be exported outside the country in order to generate more revenue for the country.
He indicated that the traditional authorities, together with the Assembly, have earmarked the construction of a new CHPS compound to boost health care delivery in the area.
The project is a 3-storey lecture hall project. It will accommodate 1,200 students. The wings of the lecture blocks will have several washroom facilities, with the lecture blocks being in the middle and additional facilities at the helm of the blocks.
The project is earmarked in first and second phases.
The first phase of the project is expected to be completed in 12 months.
The project is estimated to cost Gh¢7.8m.
