Tuesday 18th February, 2020
By
Kofi Mensah, Obuasi, GNA
Obuasi (Ash), Feb
18, GNA – There was a spontaneous jubilation among the people, especially rural
women in Tutuka and its environs in the Obuasi East District, when the new
ambulance for the Constituency was out doored to begin operations in the area.
The women who poured
out in their numbers to jubilate told the Ghana News Agency that, they would no
longer have to be carried at the back of a motorbike to a health facility to
deliver when they were in labour.
According to them,
poor road network and lack of efficient transport services, especially in rural
communities in the District, had been a major challenge to health care
delivery, especially for pregnant women, resulting in several untimely deaths
during child birth.
Madam Faustina
Amissah, District Chief Executive, said the outdooring was to create awareness
among the people of the presence of the ambulance to support health care delivery
in the area.
She said contracts
had been awarded to construct a number of road networks in the District and
appealed to the people to call the ambulance only when they were in need of its
services.
Dr. Patrick Boakye
Yiadom, the Member of Parliament for Obuasi East, stressed the importance of
the ambulance facility and said it would greatly help the people especially
those in rural communities during emergency health situations.
He said all the
routes in the District have been shown to the operators of the ambulance to
facilitate movement and efficient service delivery, adding that, what the
people needed to do was to call 112 in case of emergency.
GNA