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A prayer session before the inauguration of the buses<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n THE KORLE-Bu Teaching Hospital yesterday launched a transport service for its staff.<\/p>\n Chief Executive Officer of Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr. Opoku Ware Ampomah, said this was very significant considering their staff population.<\/p>\n He said having just under 1000 functional housing units for a staff population of over 7500 means that the vast majority of our staff have to commute over various distances to and from work, which is stressful.<\/p>\n \u201cConcerns of transport was a challenge to our staff, so management took it into consideration\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n Dr. Ampomah expressed the hope that the staff transport service will usher them into a new chapter and accord them relief.<\/p>\n \u201cI trust that these will also result in increased punctuality and productivity, apart from the social benefits,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n The Deputy Head of Vanguard Assurance, Eric Nana Kyei, said they partnered with Mobile Edge Company to provide Korle- Bu with a staff transport service that would offer staffs safe, cost effective and convenient means of commuting between home and work.<\/p>\n He further said that Vanguard is bringing on board vast experience in offering financial security protection from similar partnership.<\/p>\n \u201cVanguard Assurance is offering free GHC10,000 cedis personal accident cover for every Korle-Bu staff that boards the bus,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n He, however, said they are committed to keeping this service running to achieve the set goals.<\/p>\n Managing Director of Mobile Edge Co. Ltd, Asamoa Ansu Kwadwo, said his outfit will open up a software environment to all staff of Korle-Bu to sign up and use the unique capabilities of the mobile app, and buses for their daily transport needs.<\/p>\n \u201cOur mobile application is a closed environment and as such will not be available to the general public\u201d, he stated.<\/p>\n He further said they were mapping out the entire city with virtual stops and pickup points based on the distribution of the hospital\u2019s 7500 employees.<\/p>\n BY Hudda Bala Abdul Manan<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A prayer session before the inauguration of the buses THE KORLE-Bu Teaching Hospital yesterday launched a transport service for its staff. Chief Executive Officer of Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr. Opoku Ware Ampomah, said this was very significant considering their staff population. He said having just under 1000 functional housing units for a staff population of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1212664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4756,185,395,983],"class_list":{"0":"post-1212663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-korlebu","9":"tag-service","10":"tag-staff","11":"tag-transport"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}