{"id":14738,"date":"2014-04-22T15:30:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T15:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=14738"},"modified":"2014-04-22T15:30:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T15:30:47","slug":"sekondi-takoradi-has-no-ambulance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=14738","title":{"rendered":"Sekondi-Takoradi has no ambulance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis in the Western Region has no ambulance Service.<\/p>\n<p>This was after a tipper truck crashed into the only one the Metropolis had a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p>This according to the Ghana National Ambulance Service is crippling health delivery in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Aside this, the Service is also expressing concern about the failure of drivers to give ambulances due recognition during emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>Most drivers according to the Service ignore ambulances in emergency cases as they compete with them for space on the road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the siren is even blurring, they drivers don\u2019t seem to care,\u201d lamented an official of the National Ambulance Service, Abdullai Ayana.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, he stated that the problem has been compounded with the incessant blurring of sirens by unauthorized vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI don\u2019t blame them that much because you will find vehicles blurring sirens all over and nothing is being done about it and we also don\u2019t have that mandate to stop them from doing what they are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the road networks in the Takoradi Metropolis also hinder the work of the Service \u2018because we should not be having two lanes\u2026because we have grown past the roads we have in the system now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamidan\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @osamidan<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15,52],"class_list":["post-14738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-chinese","tag-tema-port"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}