The Chief Executive Officer of the National Ambulance Service, Prof. Ahmed N. Zakariah, has said things are not in place yet to occasion the distribution of the 300 new ambulances, scheduled for Monday, January 6.
Instead of Monday, January 6, NAS suggests that the ceremony be held on January 28 by which time all the works would have been completed.
“Since all the above issues are being addressed before the commissioning of the ambulances to ensure efficient and effective emergency response, we strongly recommend that the Commissioning is postponed to the 28th of January, 2020 by which time all these issues would have been resolved.
The concerns raised by NAS, besides the training of staff and paramedics to use the ambulances and medical equipment, and the installation of the Digitized ICT Dispatch System, are also the issues of the yet to be completed installation of tracking devices to ensure that the locations of all ambulances are known at every point in time; the setting up of service centers across the country to ensure that the ambulances arc maintained and sustainable so they don’t travel undue distances for servicing, and the labeling of the Ambulances.
Source: Kofi Atakora
