U/E: Ambulance Administrator calls for help with only two in the region
The Upper East Regional Administrator of the National Ambulance Service, Ali Baba Awini has indicated that, the region is a dire need of ambulances which are required for transporting patient in the region.
He added that, the due o the lack of the resource, people convey their sick ones in transports that are not the standard to an ambulance and the situation is quite alarming.
He added that, the whole Upper East region have to rely on two ambulances, which serves over a million of the people residing in the region.
Mr Awini stated with regards to the requisites for a vehicle to be considered as an ambulance that “…Before you can call a vehicle an ambulance, it must have a bed and all the necessary medical equipment and medications with trained personnel to mount it.”
Saying this, he said majority of the districts in Upper East do not have the necessities to for the vehicles functioning in the absence of ambulances to be used as such.
He added that areas like Navrongo, Sandema, Garu, Zebilla, Tongo, Chiana and Bolgatanga managed to meet the requirements of an ambulance while other districts could not make it.
Yet, after these managed to meet the requirements, only two of the vehicles are functioning in the entire region after the breakdown of the rest.
He said “This narrowed the number of ambulances in the Region to only seven, presently as we speak; the Zebilla ambulance was involved in an accident and has not been replaced because we do not have ambulances.”
“Recently, the Sandema one was transporting a case from the Regional hospital to Tamale and when it got to Walewale, the whole ambulance burnt completely,”
He added that after these incidents, the ambulances were now limited to five with only that of Balgatanga and Garu functioning saying the Chiana, Tongo And Navrongo ambulances broken down.
He affirmed that the management have decided that the two will not travel beyond Tamale so as to enable them continue to function in a way desired.
He added that the referral hospital in Bawku also lacked an ambulance as the Upper East region is the region with the lowest number of ambulances.
By this stated, he has called on Non Governmental Organisations, (NGOs) and the government to come to their intervention.
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