A SOD has been cut for the construction of a hospital, nurses quarters,a kitchen and dinning hall for cured lepers at Ho.
The project which was estimated at GH¢100,000, would start in January next year and take three months to complete.
Work on the project is being undertaken by the Cured Lepers Foundation of Ho and a non-governmental organisation, Madamfo Ghana Foundation.
Speaking at the sod-cutting ceremony, the Executive Director of Madamfo Ghana Foundation, Ms Bettina Landgrafe said the organisation was committed to showing love to the afflicted in society.
According to her, the foundation had provided water and sanitation facilities, schools, clinics, hospitals and school feeding programmes for some communities in the Ashanti and Brong Ahafo regions.
Ms Landgrafe promised to pay the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) premium for 150 cured lepers in the Ho Municipality.
The Chairperson of the Cured Lepers Foundation, Mrs Joycelyn Akorfa Ochlich-Dotse, said 28 housing units had been constructed for the cured lepers, adding that eight new ones were under construction.
She said cured lepers needed the facility in view of the precarious situation of some of them who had deep ulcers and found it difficult to visit the Ho Polyclinic for medical care.
The queen of Ho-Dome, Mama Atrato II, commended the NGOs for their humanitarian initiatives and urged the beneficiaries to take good care of the facilities in order to win more assistance from donors.
The Principal Leprosy Technical Officer at the Ho Polyclinic, Mr Anthony Adjavor, said the project was unique since it would afford the cured lepers the opportunity to access proper medical care.
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