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According to Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, the ranking member of Parliament’s Health Committee, out of the 307 ambulances that Nana Akufo-Addo acquired and put into service in 2020, 91 are not now in service.
While roughly 79 have fully failed, he claims that 12 others have been in accidents and are therefore not in excellent condition.
Mr. Akandoh made the assertion during a discussion on the Ministry of Health’s budget estimations. He lamented the National Ambulance Service’s lack of money in spite of the organization having seen an increase in cases over the previous several years.
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“In 2022, the National Ambulance Service recorded not less than 41,000 cases; in 2023, as at the time they appeared before us, they had recorded only 27,000 cases.”
“Mr. Speaker, as I have read from the report, out of about GH¢67 million in allocation, they have received only GH¢20 million. Mr. Speaker, out of the 307 ambulances that were imported into this country in 2020, about 79 have completely broken down and are not in operation, and about 12 have been involved in accidents. All in all, about 91 of the ambulances are not in operation, and if we continue this way, four years from now, we will not have any ambulances left in the fleet.”
On Tuesday, January 28, 2020, President Nana Akufo-Addo commissioned the ambulances at the Black Star Square forecourt in Accra.
