{"id":225809,"date":"2026-03-02T13:24:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-council-of-state-member-cuts-sod-for-50-bed-childrens-ward-for-samartex-hospital\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T13:24:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:24:04","slug":"ghana-council-of-state-member-cuts-sod-for-50-bed-childrens-ward-for-samartex-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-council-of-state-member-cuts-sod-for-50-bed-childrens-ward-for-samartex-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Council of State Member Cuts Sod for 50-Bed Children&#8217;s Ward for Samartex Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The Western Region representative on the Council of State, Dr Maxwell Boakye, has cut sod for the construction of a 50-bed capacity children&#8217;s ward at Samartex Hospital in Samreboi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">When completed, the 50-bed Children&#8217;s Ward is expected to expand the capacity of Samartex Hospital and enhance paediatric healthcare services in the Western Region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The project is being undertaken in honour of the late mother of Dr Boakye and is aimed at improving paediatric healthcare delivery and expanding access to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603020440.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Region representative on the Council of State, Dr Maxwell Boakye, has cut sod for the construction of a 50-bed capacity children&#8217;s ward at Samartex Hospital in Samreboi. When completed, the 50-bed Children&#8217;s Ward is expected to expand the capacity of Samartex Hospital and enhance paediatric healthcare services in the Western Region. The project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":225810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[53800,258,256,10169,6158,7210,4508,4509,6362,6483,257,41589,15569,254,6017,8349],"class_list":["post-225809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-50bed","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-childrens","tag-council","tag-cuts","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-hospital","tag-member","tag-news","tag-samartex","tag-sod","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-ward"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}