A new hospital with international standards is to be constructed at the Race Course area in Kumasi to complement health delivery at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital .
This is to facilitate quality health care delivery among residents in the Kumasi Metropolis and its environs .
Also to be constructed at the Race Course Area is a 240 semi detached executive houses that would transform the area into one of the most attractive suburbs within the Kumasi Metropolis.
To make the Race Course area more attractive, a five star hotel will also be constructed as part of the project, and attached to the hotel will be a fitness centre and an amusement park, where people from all walks of life can converge to have fun.
A sod-cutting ceremony of the project dubbed “Sun-Citi Kumasi”, which will be carried out by the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II next month , will coincide with a ceremony to develop the Race Course area into a magnificent shopping mall that will boost commerce in the Garden City.
A Ghanaian businessman based in South Africa, Mr Robert K.A. Asante, who announced this when he paid a courtesy call on the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu 11, at the Manhyia Palace also announced that he had already secured funding for the project and would announce the estimated cost during the sod-cutting ceremony.
“The project would mark the beginning of transforming the Race Course area into a vibrant tourist centre, thereby boosting commerce and income generation among residents in the Kumasi Metropolis and its environs” Mr Asante said.
The courtesy call coincided with the visit of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu of the South Africa, whose role in the liberation of the country from apartheid policies had been recognised world-wide.
The Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr Kofi Opoku Manu and his deputy, Ms Anima Wilson, and Service Commanders in the Kumasi Metropolis also attended the durbar which also included the Archbishop of the Anglican Diocese in Kumasi, Rt Revd Dr Daniel Yinkah Sarfo and the Catholic Archbishop of Kumasi, Very Rev. Thomas Kwaku Mensah.
Archbishop Tutu was led to the Manhyia Palace by Professor Atukwei Okai, the renowned poet.
Mr. Asante who was full of enthusiasm when addressing Otumfuo Osei Tutu and a cross section of the Chiefs from the Kumasi Traditional area on the Race Course project said he was concerned about quality health care delivery among residents in the northern sector of the country.
He said he would, therefore, collaborate with his business partners to speed up the construction of the clinic as soon as the sod cutting ceremony was completed.
He gave the assurance that “the clinic would be equipped with an ambulance station as well as a private helicopter pad, a staff quarters and a doctors bungalows”.
He explained that such facilities would not only make the clinic attractive to entice patients from neighbouring countries to come for health care, but would also boost the morale of medical officers who would be employed to deliver quality services to win the trust and confidence of their clients.
Pleading with the chiefs and people of Kumasi to offer him the needed support to enable him complete the projects on schedule, Mr. Asante said the project “ is my widows mite not only to beautify Kumasi ,but also offer employment opportunity to the youth to make them live more dignified lifestyles”
“Nananom, The Sun-City project will create employment and also boost tourism in the Ashanti Region in particular and Ghana as a whole. We are therefore humbly appealing to Otumfuo, the Asantehene, and his noble chiefs for continuous support and protection in this direction”, he stated.
Otumfuo Osei Tutu commended Mr Asante for his sense of initiative, and assured him that he and the other chiefs would offer him all the needed support and co-operation to ensure that the project begins on schedule.
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