One person was confirmed dead after a building caved in at Assemblies, a community in the Ga South Municipality.
The incident also left four people suffering severe leg fractures.
The health centre under construction collapsed on Tuesday, July 4, after rains hit the area.
DO3 Mercel Kwami Avadu, the Kasoa Municipal Fire Commander who confirmed the incident, said several factors could have led to the collapse of the building and raised concerns about the quality of materials used in the construction.
“It may appear that inferior materials were used. As we can all see, when we touch the building, it feels like it is made of scrap. However, this does not necessarily mean that inferior materials were used. We need to conduct further investigations to determine if this is indeed the case and to find out if the engineer is qualified and has followed the proper procedures for constructing the building.
“These factors will need to be considered to determine whether shoddy work was done or whether the right thing was done,” he said.
About nine deaths and 66 injuries have been recorded in 12 separate structural collapses in eight regions within the past five months.
On May 1, 2023, an uncompleted three-storey building collapsed at SDA Junction at Adentan in Accra, where one person died, and two construction workers suffered serious injuries.
A 5-year-old girl was crushed to death while her sibling was seriously injured by a collapsed building at Ada Magazine in the Eastern Region during a rainstorm on May 21, 2023.
In another incident, a collapsed building in Nyangua, a suburb of Navrongo in the Upper East Region claimed the lives of two children after a heavy downpour on the night of June 19, 2023.
Two weeks ago, a father and son tragically lost their lives after a building in which they were sleeping collapsed on them in the Wa West District.