Kintampo (B/A), Feb 5, GNA - Dr Mohammed Bin Ibrahim, Brong Ahafo Regional Director of Health Services at the weekend warned health staff against the misuse of ambulances, particularly using them to convey corpses.
"The ambulance vehicle is solely meant to convey the injured and the sick to health facilities and not corpses", he reiterated, adding that any health staff found to have used the facility wrongfully would be made to face the law.
Dr Ibrahim was speaking at a ceremony in Kintampo at which Alhaji Asuma Banda, Executive Chairman of Antrak Group of Companies, presented an ambulance vehicle to the Kintampo North District Hospital.
The vehicle, valued at 30,000 pounds, was donated by Antrak Group of Companies, London.
"Too often, our ambulances are used for purposes other than what they are supposed to be used for, with majority of them carrying corpses for burial, this is not good enough. Corpses should be conveyed in motor hearses", he adde
He expressed appreciation to the government for recently donating seven ambulances to the Brong Ahafo Region and urged health staff to help maintain them.
He commended Alhaji Banda for the donation and called on other groups and individuals to also help.
Alhaji Banda, who is also a citizen of Kintampo, expressed regret about the poor state of the town, which he described as "the geographical centre of Ghana", and attributed the situation to the non-progressive attitude of the people.
He called on the District Assembly to redouble its efforts to give the area a deserving face-lift. 93I am ready to share my bounty with my people and all other Ghanaians as Islam teaches us to do".
Dr Clement Nabare, Medical Superintendent in-charge of the hospital, who received the vehicle, called on health personnel to work with passion as demanded by their call of service to humankind and avoid acts that would endanger the lives of patients.
He lauded Alhaji Banda's gesture, which he said, had come
at an appropriate time in view of the challenges posed to the
hospital in the accident-prone area. He expressed the hope that both the health staff and the
people would 93sacrifice to let the vehicle last so it can serve the
people for a long time". Okatakyie Agyeman Kudom 1V, Omanhene of Nkoranza
Traditional Area, who presided, advised the people to avoid
conflicts and disputes, which he said would stall development in
the area.
