Deal with the collapsed ambulance service under your ‘son’ Akufo-Addo - Stan Dogbe to Okyehene

A former presidential staffer under the erstwhile John Dramani Mahama administration, Stan Dogbe has jabbed the Okyehene, Osaagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, advising him to deal with the collapsing National Ambulance Service under President Akufo-Addo instead of trooping public events to narrate the incident leading to the death of former vice president Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur.

In a trending video on Facebook, Okyehene who is also the president of the Eastern Regional House of Chiefs is heard narrating how the late vice president was transported to the 37 Military Hospital at the back of a pick-up vehicle since there was no ambulance to convey him.

According to the chief, this was after all efforts to resuscitate the collapsed vice president had failed.

"I left my machine and went there, and there lay my friend trying to find some air to breathe. We gathered around him and pumped his heart as hard as we could, yelled out his name. I just said, ‘call the ambulance, let's take him to the hospital'.

"There were about seven, eight of us. When we took him out, there was no ambulance, there was no car, we threw the former vice-president in the back of a pick-up and drove off to 37.”

But replying the chief on his Facebook wall, Stan Dodge argued that it was unnecessary for the chief to narrate what he describes as a "coloured story" or version of the event and urged him to tell his ‘son’ President Akufo-Addo to save the National Ambulance Service.

“Granted that he was sent to the hospital in someone's vehicle, a pick-up, in the back seat of the vehicle, the bucket of the pick-up as his statement sort to portray. Which gym in this country has a standby ambulance anyway?

Your 'son', Nana Addo is watching on as the National Ambulance Service collapses... deal with it and leave the family of our late boss to mourn their son, husband, grandpa, father, uncle and relation,” he wrote.

The post which sort to point out the loop-holes in the country’s health system, the lack of ambulances and adequately equipped facilities to deal with emergency cases in Ghana, went further to accuse the Okyehene of riding on the back of his presence at the Airforce gym where the late vice president died, to gain cheap popularity amongst Ghanaians.

“Someone should please tell the chief that he was not the only one present when the tragedy struck our late boss and VP of this country to go around talking.

He had a luxury vehicle there, and many others had their cars there, if he had a good heart and a spirit of helping others, maybe; just maybe, he would have sent him to the hospital in his car.”

He should cease the recklessness of seeking cheap popularity by going to public events and seeking to share coloured stories,” he added.