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The Caretaker Central Regional Minister, Mrs Ama Benyiwa Doe, on Tuesday stated that the Better Ghana Agenda had brought a lot of infrastructural development projects to the country, particularly in the rural areas. She said the four years� implementation of the programme had seen many rural communities nationwide receiving their fair share of the national cake in terms of development and governance. Mrs Benyiwa Doe said this when she inaugurated development projects executed by the Central Regional Development Commission (CEDECOM) and the municipal and district assemblies in the Mfantseman, Agona Swedru and Gomoa East districts of the Central Region. The projects include the construction of a market complex at Biriwa in the Mfantseman Municipality, which comprises 120 open sheds, 25 lockable stores, a Kindergarten and a Highway Rest Stop at Eyisam-Ekumfi. The others are the inauguration of CHPS compounds at Winneba-Zongo, Gomoa-Fete, Gomoa-Aboso and Gomoa-Lome in the Effutu and Gomoa East municipalities respectively. The rest are the construction of a two-story emergency centre for the Agona Swedru Government Hospital, a royal museum, three-bedroom doctors� flat as well as the renovation of the Swedru Sports Stadium. Mrs Benyiwa Doe commended CEDECOM for its efforts in bringing development to the doorsteps of the people in the Central Region, adding that if the Commission is supported it would be able to remove the region from its current status as the fourth poorest region in the country. Touching on her exit as the regional minister, she expressed appreciation for the opportunity given her to serve the people of the region, adding that she had a vision and mission for the region, which she successfully fulfilled. At the inauguration of the CHPS at Winneba-Zongo, Gomoa-Aboso, Gomoa-Fete, and Gomoa-Lome, Mr Wilberforce Adade, Gomoa East District Director of Health Services, thanked the Commission and the government for bringing health care to the doorsteps of the people. He appealed to the Gomoa East District Assembly to relocate a refuse dump which is situated close to the Gomoa-Aboso CHPS Compound.