Public Health Analyst, Samuel Arthur is pushing for the dismissal of the Volta Regional Director of the National Ambulance Service.
This follows claims made by a journalist, Gati Promise that the Ambulance Service in the region failed to come to the aid of a sick boy despite several calls.
According to him, the actions of the Ambulance Service could have adversely affected the sick child.
However, the spokesperson for the National Ambulance Service, Simon Yussif Kawula, came out to debunk the claims by the journalist as untrue.
“The news that he had called an ambulance wasn’t true. He hasn’t called an ambulance, per the records we have. There is no record because we have a book that when you call the dispatch centre, people will record it and then dispatch an ambulance,” Mr. Kawula explained.
“The purpose of calling the dispatch centre is that sometimes you may see an ambulance at a location close to you but this ambulance may not be working.” It may either not have fuel or have a mechanical problem so we have to dispatch an ambulance close to you that is in good condition.”
In an interview on Starr News, the Public Health Analyst said Ambulance Service boss should be sacked for ncompetence.
“Let’s take this analogy; like you have a watchman at the gate allowing thieves to come. By the time you wake up the next morning, everything is gone and he comes back to tell you when they came, he didn’t have a gun. I just had to open the door for them to take everything and go. And he still wants you to keep him at his job, this is what it means. Let’s, not give excuses like they say when the kitchen is too hot for you, you have to walk out. It looks like people don’t understand what it means by the kitchen being hot. It is hot because you are not delivering on the mandate you are to deliver on”, he said.
Mr. Arthur further stressed that this incompetence by emergency services is claiming many innocent lives.
“People are dying by the day and no one is being held accountable. Issues are being explained to us and we are supposed to take them like that. Let’s get pretty serious, let’s check this and begin to look at clear emergency situations. So, it’s like we know the emergency will come, we know what we need to put in place. We somehow will not put it in place and when it happens, we want to all behave like we sympathize, we empathize”, he stated.
He continued; “We do the emotional things and then go and pray and think that God will come and save them it will not happen. We need to be responsible and if we say it is an emergency service let it remain an emergency and that will reflect in the action of all players, providers and everybody who is aligned with that kind of service. It is very critical”
