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The National Ambulance Service (NAS) has refuted claims that the nearly 30 ambulances parked at an unidentified location have been abandoned, as a viral video on social media assumes.
In a statement signed by the department’s deputy public relations director Simmons Yussif Kewura, ambulances are there for routine maintenance and repairs and so could not be abandoned as the viral video tells.
According to the statement, the said location where the ambulances were parked is a designated workshop for routine maintenance, maintenance and repairs of ambulances in the central and northern areas of the country.
“The attention of the management of the National Ambulance Service (NAS) has been drawn to the dissemination of a video on social networks indicating that some Ambulances are parked in an unidentified location.
“NAS would like to record that said location is the designated Ashanti Regional Service Workshop located in Kumasi, where the Service undertakes routine maintenance, upkeep and repairs of all ambulances in the Middle and North Sectors.
“Said ambulances are there for routine maintenance, upkeep and repairs respectively,” the statement added.
In January 2020, President Akufo-Addo ordered and dispatched 307 ambulances to help scale up the operations of the ambulance service.
Ambulances were distributed to all 275 constituencies in Ghana, in line with the government’s 2016 manifesto pledge to help improve the delivery of emergency health care in the country.
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