“The following have been completed and are operational: five (5) in the Western Region at Wassa Dunkwa, Bogoso, Nsuaem, Mpohor and Elubo,” the NDC Manifesto stated.

But checks by a team of journalists from Takoradi-based radio station Sky Power indicated that the said polyclinics were not existent.

After being to Bogoso, Nsuayem, and Mpohor districts of the Western region to verify the claims, Kojo Brace of the Takoradi-based station said:"There is nothing like a polyclinic there."

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From Bogoso, the journalist reported that the chief of the area gave land to the government within this year for the project to start, “but as of now, it is only the clearing of the land that has been done. The existing health centre has not had any renovations done on it to give an indication that may be that structure is to be turned into a polyclinic.”

The resident reporter from Nsuaem in the Tarkwa Nsuaem constituency also reported that the town is yet to see such a project.

“I have just spoken to an authority at the health centre here, and he tells me he has not even heard of anything like that here. The people living in Nsuaem have not heard of any land that has been acquired for the building of this polyclinic,” the reporter said.

For Mpohor, the Member of Parliament, Hon. Alex Agyekum indicated that there is no polyclinic in the town. He, however, added that the Assembly has awarded a contract to someone for the construction of a theatre as a way of upgrading the health centre into a district hospital.

“I will be shocked if anybody will say that there is a polyclinic in Mpohor. It is the old health centre that we are currently renovating for an upgrade,” he said.

Mphor and Elubo districts are, however, yet to the visited.

In his reaction, the employment minister, Haruna Iddrisu said these are errors in the manifesto, which were "not intended to deceive".

He told Accra-based Joy FM that the said projects are expected to be part of polyclinics the government intends to construct in the future.