{"id":236087,"date":"2026-06-12T05:47:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-minority-mps-on-parliaments-health-committee-barred-from-visiting-afari-hospital\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T05:47:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:47:23","slug":"ghana-minority-mps-on-parliaments-health-committee-barred-from-visiting-afari-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-minority-mps-on-parliaments-health-committee-barred-from-visiting-afari-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Minority MPs On Parliament&#8217;s Health Committee Barred From Visiting Afari Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Security personnel at the Afari Government Hospital yesterday turned away the Ranking Member of Parliament&#8217;s Health Committee, Dr Nana Ayew Afriyie, and a delegation of Ashanti Region MPs after the legislators arrived unannounced for an inspection tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Guards denied the MPs entry, insisting on prior authorisation, while the delegation argued their constitutional mandate entitled them to access.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">The stand-off ended with the MPs leaving without conducting their intended visit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" \/a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606110314.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>Security personnel at the Afari Government Hospital yesterday turned away the Ranking Member of Parliament&#8217;s Health Committee, Dr Nana Ayew Afriyie, and a delegation of Ashanti Region MPs after the legislators arrived unannounced for an inspection tour. Guards denied the MPs entry, insisting on prior authorisation, while the delegation argued their constitutional mandate entitled them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":236088,"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":[42752,258,256,7999,5857,4508,4509,5731,6362,12287,7260,257,11421,254,8784],"class_list":["post-236087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-afari","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-barred","tag-committee","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-health","tag-hospital","tag-minority","tag-mps","tag-news","tag-parliaments","tag-south-africa-today","tag-visiting"],"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\/236087","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=236087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}