President Akufo-Addo has ordered 100 more state-of-the-art ambulances to add up to the 307 every district in Ghana has, Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr. Anthony Nsiah Asare has revealed.
“It has already been captured in the budget and the order has already been placed. Ghana needs more than 307 ambulances; every district needs about 2 of it…about 100 of it has been ordered”, he said in an interview on Wontumi TV.
The move according to Dr. Anthony Nsiah Asare, forms part of President Akufo-Addo’s vision to totally transform Ghana’s health sector.
He stated that the ambulances have oxygen compartments and can be used to convey patients with COVID-19 to hospitals at ease.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Tuesday, 28th January, 2019, commissioned and presented three hundred and seven (307) new, state-of-the-art ambulances to the National Ambulance Service, in fulfilment of his 2016 campaign pledge.
According to President Akufo-Addo, the 307 ambulances are “fitted with advanced life support equipment and tracking devices, to be distributed to 275 constituencies, i.e. 1-Constituency-1-Ambulance, to be managed by the National Ambulance Service, and the remainder of thirty-two (32) ambulances to the headquarters of the Service.”
Presenting the ambulances, at a ceremony at the Independence Square, the President noted that, when he took office in January 2017, the National Ambulance Service had 130 stations, 10 regional control rooms across the country, and only 55 ‘semi-functioning’ ambulances.
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