The Eastern Regional Office of Ghana National Ambulance Service on Sunday joined members of Pentecost International Worship Center (PIWC) in Koforidua to create awareness about their operations, and equip congregants with essential first aid knowledge and skills.
The program was aimed at educating congregants on emergency response protocols and life-saving techniques.
Members of the PIWC-KOFORIDUA congregation were taken through basic first aid procedures such as CPR, bleeding control, and how to respond during medical emergencies before paramedics arrive.
Eastern Regional Manager of National Ambulance Service Michael Gaani explained how the Ambulance Service operates, including how to call for help and what information to provide during emergencies.
Mr. Gaani who is President of the Emergency Medical Technicians Association of Ghana (EMTAG) said the core mandate of National Ambulance. Service, (NAS), is to provide efficient and timely pre-hospital emergency medical care to the sick and the injured.
Mr.Gaani stressed that Ambulance vehicles is not hearse therefore urged the public to desist from contacting Ambulance Service to transport corpses for burial services.
“There is misconception about ambulance services and that of hearse services. We have made it clear that when we say an ambulance it is a vehicle Pursposively designed to carry the sick and the injured whereas a hearse is designed to carry dead bodies or corpse. So with this education we believe that members can now deferentiate between what an Ambulance is and especially the national Ambulance Service what it does”.
He added “So Basically Ambulance Service or Emergency Services are purely first aid there is no any corpse carrying dead body carrying. I have had churches because of the word Ambulance it connotes what we know in Africa as a hearse so they come they say may be we have a church member who has passed on we need your service to carry the corpse may be to the funeral grounds or whatever they want to carry the body to ” Gaani explained.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
