Besotted by the success chalked by the Akufo-Addo administration in the delivery of the 307 ambulances which were unveiled and distributed today at the Independence Square, opposition MPs sought to deflate the event with a storyline that is more comical than stories watched on Comedy Central.
Kwabena Mintah-Akandoh, at a press conference, chastised the Akufo-Addo administration for neglecting some 8 mobile vans that supplied some basic needs in the hinterlands.
The vehicles which were imported into the country in 2014 have been parked at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital for some time now.
Akandoh opines that the neglect of these vans to 'rot' tacitly depicts the Akufo-Addo government's unwillingness to tackle the healthcare needs of the people. He describes this as insensitive and has called on the administration to put the vans back on the road in two weeks.
As already indicated, the NDC is pained by the fulfilment of the One Constituency, One Ambulance promise and seeks to obfuscate that colourful event with a story not fit for the airwaves.
The vans, it has to be emphasized, are not in good conditions. In fact, they are not in motorable conditions and have not been motorable since they were grounded.
Mention has to be made of the fact that the spare parts are not readily available on the market. The company that supplied these vans to the then administration is untraceable to assist the Health Ministry to repair them and use same.
Why would anybody park these vans if they were in good shapes or could be repaired?
Kwabena Mintah-Akandoh and his team should supply the Health Ministry with information about the one they purchased these cars from. Until they do that, they should keep quiet!
Source: P.K. Sarpong / [email protected]
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This van looks like the ice cream van which always come to my apartment. Ghanaians are not serious at all
i pray that, we will have the common sense to maintain them
Abeg take the cars to suame magazine. They can service it.
@Kojo Sromani, you are insulting people hear and there even common ministry of health you can't spell it right. where are the 500 bed military hospital, 1,500 chip compounds and the so called health facilities you are making noises about? All you know is to position that indecent mouth of yours at any angle and start spewing thrash
Everything good for Ghanaian Citizens is bad good this people. God have mercy on us.
Mischievous Kwabena Mintah-Akandoh and NDC should be aware that Ghanaians are wide awaken to their lies. These 8 Mobile Clinics neve functioned from day one when they were brought in 2014 and commissioned in 2015 because the supplier had not supplied all components to make it functional as of the time they exited in 2016, according to JoyNews report of February 14, 2018: "Joy News checks indicate that the mobile-clinic vans were registered in the year 2014 and the then National Democratic Congress (NDC) government was in the process of sourcing funds for the operations of the vans before it exited office in 2016"
Were these vehicles operational at the time the NDC handed over to the NPP Government in January 2017? You left equipment that cannot be used during your time and now you are complaining of somebody not using them. You brought 'Sprinter" tro tro buses under guise of ambulances and then you started crying for the distribution of imported ambulances by the NPP when your 'Sprinter' Ambulances cannot be traced in the assets of the Ghana Ambulance Service. The NDC created all these problems and then they complain about Corruption Index.
Who is this "ghost" PK Sarpong? Why is it not the ministry of help issuing a statement, but Peace FM and this unknown sycophant going the biffing of NPP. For just procuring and distributing ambulances after having done nothing for the health sector in over 3 years, the NPP is over itself shouting and celebrating. This is a clear cade of mediocrity being advertised for the whole world to see and mskr mockery of Ghana. Mahama built 4 new Regional hospitals, a Maritime hospital, an almost completed 500 bed Military hospital, the Legon Medical Center which is a level above tertiary, 25 District hospitals, 30 Polyclinics, and over 1,500 CHPS Compounds, but never made noise or organized a fanfare parade. Our cheap journalists and NPP lunatic empty-head buffoons are jumping all over the place over what is far far less an achievement in comparison to what JDM did in the health sector. What a shame!!!
Village mentality dis vans are specialised to do that job we wasted moneyour to buy trotro cars for specialised job
Ooh AKANDOH