Chinese Government provides RMB 104.85 million grant for Phase 1 of the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) Project (Linked to Record ID#53164)

Project narrative

In 2012, China’s Ministry of Commerce and the Government of Ghana signed an RMB 104,850,000 grant agreement for Phase 1 of the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) Project. The project involved the construction of 11 buildings, 5 lecture halls, 7 laboratories, a cafeteria and kitchen, an electrical transformation and distribution room, libraries, student housing facilities, a senior staff residential area, and parking facilities, basketball courts, outdoor roads and other supporting facilities. Yanjian Group was the contractor responsible for implementation. Construction began on August 7, 2013 and was completed on April 6, 2015. The project passed final inspection by China’s Ministry of Commerce on June 8, 2015. Then, on August 14, 2015, the project was officially completed and handed over to the Ghanaian authorities. A second handover ceremony took place on September 18, 2015. Then, on November 19, 2015, the UHAS campus was officially inaugurated. The university is now capable of training 4500 students a year. During a UHAS congregation in 2019, Vice Chancellor Professor John Owusu Gyapong shared that a lack of infrastructure was negatively impacting the quality of learning. At that point, only one of eight schools and none of the three institutes had been built as a result of an inability to pay for contracted construction work. The Chinese Government has also committed RMB 400 million for Phase 2 of the project (captured via Record ID#53164).