President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said the 300 ambulances he promised during the 2016 campaign to be delivered to every constituency have started arriving in the country.
Speaking at the induction of some 378 newly trained medical doctors in Accra yesterday, the President said the first batch of 48 ambulances is already in the country, and the rest are expected to follow next month.
“The first batch of 48 ambulances out of the 300 procured by my government for distribution for each of the 275 constituencies i.e one constituency, one ambulance, and to the National Ambulance Service has arrived in the country, with the second batch due in Ghana by the first week in October. By the end of this year, they will all be in,” he said.
The President was concerned that doctors continue to reject postings to rural areas and said it is affecting quality healthcare delivery in the country.
“Our medical schools have got a good reputation and have been training good doctors and dentists. However, the doctor dentist population ratio in our country remains very unsatisfactory after 62 years of nation in our regions, districts and deprived communities, especially for the newly created regions and districts.”
The induction of new medical doctors was held in honour of Dr. Emmanuel Evans-Anfom, the second Chairman of the Medical and Dental Council (M & DC) of Ghana (from 1979-1984), a man the council described as ‘a patriot and an icon of the medical profession.’
The President encouraged newly inducted doctors to follow the exemplary life of Dr. Evans-Anfom and accept postings to deprived areas where their services are needed most.
“I’m determined to work to help ensure that these improvements we all want in our lives become reality,” he stressed, insisting that “government is committed to improving access to essential and Quality Health Services through the provision of the necessary health infrastructure, equipment and logistics including the deployment of appropriate technology as part of our drive to attain Universal Health coverage.”
Source: Daily Guide
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Nana has done well but the one most important thing we are all pleading Nana should do is the National Ambulance Bill should be pass to empower the personnel's of the service to sacrifice themselves to work hard and to take a very good care of the appliances. The president should also see to it that, the work of National Ambulance service is very ,very Dangerous in terms of transporting a patient, the risk involved, so the president should try and give them risk allowance so that the personnel's will also be happy to sacrifice their lives to save more lives
For me I don't believe it until I see the ambulances with my naked eye. Last year I remember this government came out with a tall list and gargantuan money to pay all teacher arrears. But I just wake up one day to see that is just on paper. They also come out with tall list to post nurses but that one too was on paper. I have visited one or two places two palaces to see if is true there has been a factory there but no is on paper. So I tell my father Nana Addo plain that if he don't want our party to sit aside he should do real things or check his ministers well. Because all what they send to him is on paper
Please let support our own oooo toom.. Kantanka can do better.. Please go to South Korea and see if you can see any Japanese cars on their roads although they are very close neighbors.
Nana you are on course.God bless you nightly.
Mr President, I am very disappointed in you, couldn't you have contacted Kantanka for these vehicles?? Is it not about time we start patronizing made in Ghana goods? Mr President,for the love of the country help this man to eradicate most of our problems in the country.
I believe in the absence of hospitals, clinics, polyclinics, CHIPS compound etc,these procured ambulances will be rendering their services to patient in your bedroom. We are just seek as a nation with so many ........
This is truly a listening government
Of course this had to happen close to the election year. Everything these people do plays into a larger plan to get re-elected. I am grateful though, but....
ghanaians will forever live to regret their ingratitude should they bring back the NDC
This and many of the social interventions that are impacting the lives of the masses are carefully ignored to hype and magnify ants into elephants and a grain of sand into boulders and rocks. I wish Ghanaians will travel around the African sub-region to appreciate what we have. Thank you Mr President and your visionary government.