General News of Monday, 6 January 2020Source: www.ghanaweb.com‘User training has not been done on 307 ambulances’ – Ambulance Service defends halt on commissioning307 ambulances have been procured by government under the US$1m per constituency policyGovernment was today, January 6, 2020 expected to commission and distribute some 307 ambulances to the 275 constituencies as part of a campaign promise by the Akufo-Addo led administration to address emergency healthcare across the country. The commissioning of these ambulances has since been suspended after the National Ambulance Service (NAS) through the Ministry of Health, wrote to President Akufo-Addo to request for the process to be postponed. “Obviously if things had gone according to plan, it means that the user training would’ve been done and vehicles would’ve been commissioned and then dispatched to the various constituencies. The Health Ministry, on the other hand, has issued new dates scheduled for the training of personnel for the 307 ambulances in the weeks of the 13th and 20th of January 2020. It is, however, expected that government will commission the new ambulances on January 28, 2020.

Source: GhanaWeb January 06, 2020 12:00 UTC