{"id":609783,"date":"2019-04-24T19:27:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T19:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Wednesday, 24 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>citinewsroom.com<\/p>\n2019-04-24\n\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/04\/367"},"modified":"2019-04-24T19:27:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T19:27:43","slug":"dont-politicize-medical-drone-delivery-service-bawumia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/24\/dont-politicize-medical-drone-delivery-service-bawumia\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t politicize medical drone delivery service \u2013 Bawumia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Wednesday, 24 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>citinewsroom.com<\/p>\n<p>2019-04-24<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/36741722.295.jpg\" alt=\"Bawumia E Visa\" title=\"Bawumia E Visa\" width=\"295\" height=\"172\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Vice President, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia has called on Ghanaians not to politicize the drones for medical supplies initiative<\/p>\n<p>At the launch of the initiative, he indicated that death is no respecter of persons and does not determine the political affiliation of an individual.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo Ghanaian deserves to die because by no choice of his or hers they are in hard-to- reach areas in this country. I am reliably informed of the huge impact the drone technology has made in the health care delivery systems in other countries such as Rwanda and I have no doubt that the success will be replicated in Ghana when we start using the technology to deliver critical medical products.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is therefore clear that we cannot reduce this service to the usual politicking because anybody who is dying will not be asked to show their party card before care is extended to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Director of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Anthony Nsiah Asare also said the project will enable Ghana to achieve a Universal Health care delivery system.<\/p>\n<p>The 12.5 million dollar contract is to enable the Ghana Health Service to fly blood and other essential medical supplies to deprived and hard-to-reach areas.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Asare said the centre will serve residents in the Eastern and Greater Accra Regions, and parts of the Volta, Central and Ashanti Regions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGhana has joined the league of nations in the use of technology to achieve efficiency in the supply chain system in healthcare delivery. Ghana is poised to reach everybody everywhere so we achieve universal health coverage. This distribution centre will reach every part of the country..\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The $12.5 million deal is to enable the Ghana Health Service to send blood and other essential medical supplies to deprived and hard-to-reach areas.<\/p>\n<p>When at full operations, Zipline expects will be running over 150 flights per day from each of its four distribution centres nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Zipline had been conducting its final testing and diagnostics of its equipment by flying a drone to deliver vaccines to the New Tafo Hospital in the Eastern Region.<\/p>\n<p>Some patients and officials at the New Tafo Government Hospital have already testified to the effectiveness of the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Coffie, a 44-year-old driver said the equipment had already proven it\u2019s work by saving his life with timely delivery of blood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday [Monday] I was seriously bleeding after my operation so my family members were informed that I needed blood immediately and this drone saved me. And I think it is a good initiative,\u201d he told Citi News on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Zipline began its initial testing and diagnostic flights from its first distribution centre at Omenako on March 1, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>It is capable of making emergency deliveries of life-saving medications to over 2,000 health facilities across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Fly Zipline launched a similar service in Rwanda in 2006 to improve public health delivery in that country.<\/p>\n<p><b>Lawsuit<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Member of Parliament for Ashaiman, Ernest Norgbey has filed a lawsuit in court challenging the contract.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Norgbey in his writ said there was no justification for the government to sole-source the contract to Fly Zipline.<\/p>\n<p>He had earlier expressed concern that the contract did not satisfy procedures in the Public Procurement Act.<\/p>\n<p>He argued in the writ that the government \u201cdid not do due diligence or survey the market before embarking on a single sourcing method of procurement.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Wednesday, 24 April 2019 Source: citinewsroom.com 2019-04-24 Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia Vice President, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia has called on Ghanaians not to politicize the drones for medical supplies initiative At the launch of the initiative, he indicated that death is no respecter of persons and does not determine the political affiliation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":607390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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