The Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis in the Western Region has no ambulance Service.
This was after a tipper truck crashed into the only one the Metropolis had a few months ago.
This according to the Ghana National Ambulance Service is crippling health delivery in the region.
Aside this, the Service is also expressing concern about the failure of drivers to give ambulances due recognition during emergencies.
Most drivers according to the Service ignore ambulances in emergency cases as they compete with them for space on the road.
“When the siren is even blurring, they drivers don’t seem to care,” lamented an official of the National Ambulance Service, Abdullai Ayana.
Speaking to Citi News, he stated that the problem has been compounded with the incessant blurring of sirens by unauthorized vehicles.
He said: “I don’t blame them that much because you will find vehicles blurring sirens all over and nothing is being done about it and we also don’t have that mandate to stop them from doing what they are doing.”
According to him, the road networks in the Takoradi Metropolis also hinder the work of the Service ‘because we should not be having two lanes…because we have grown past the roads we have in the system now.”
By: Efua Idan Osam/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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