The Ministry of Health is pleading for the postponement of the commissioning of the ambulances that have been parked at the State House in Accra.
In a letter to the President, sector Minister, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu claims that he is ‘adding his voice’ to the demands by the National Ambulance Service for the distribution of the ambulances to the various constituencies to be put on hold.
“I forward to you a letter from the management of the National Ambulance Service making a request for the postponement of the Commissioning of the new ambulances. Having engaged them and listened to the reasons for the request for the postponement, I would like to add my voice for their request to be granted”, parts of the letter from the Health Minister to the President read.
For the National Ambulance Service, its appeal to have the commissioning halted from the scheduled January 6, 2020 date is to critically assess and conclude technical issues regarding the deployment of the ambulances for effective and efficient emergency response.
It has therefore suggested January 28, 2020, be considered as the new date for the commissioning.
“This request has become very necessary due to the fact that the following important technical issues need to be completely addressed before the ambulances can be commissioned and dispatched to the various constituencies to ensure efficient and effective responses suffered some delay due to unforeseen circumstances.”
In its five-point explanation, the Service argued that issues such as the training of staff and paramedics on the usage of the ambulances and medical equipment as well as an improved state of the art digitized ICT dispatch system needed to be addressed.
The other concerns it raised were the installation of tracking devices, establishing service centers and the need for the labeling of the ambulances to be.
“Since all the above issues are being addressed before the commissioning of the ambulances to ensure an efficient and effective emergency response, we strongly recommend that the commissioning is postponed to the 28th of January 2020 by which all these issues would have been resolved.”
The first batch of ambulances arrived in September 2019 for all 275 constituencies in the country in fulfilment of a promise made by President Nana Akufo-Addo and the NPP Government in the build-up to the 2016 general elections.
As a promise to revamp the ailing National Ambulance Service however, 96 out of the 275 ambulances are currently parked at the State House awaiting distribution.
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