Public Health Analyst Samuel Arthur has asked for the resignation of the director of the volta region ambulance service for incompetence.
This follows claims after a journalist who bears the name, Gati Promise has said 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 our records we have. There is no record because we have a book that when you call the dispatch center people will record it and then dispatch an ambulance,”
Commenting on this response from the national ambulance service the health analyst said,” This is not the time for PR, we need to sharpen our logistics. From the narration that we received and these are people that we can clearly identify and follow up on. The request for the big man to resign is based on information that is available. If they are refuting the claim, I don’t know which part of the claim they are refuting. It is clear that the gentleman said that a call was placed to the director and the director told him to follow protocol. Now let’s ask ourselves, what protocol are they that we don’t know of. That we need to be subjected to and then at a point of emergency we need to go round in circles. Someone needs to answer us. Is the emergency response reliable. There are so many problems of negligence from the ambulance service yet people will come and explain themselves away. So, asking for the director to go is based on the issues that came up.”
