Procuring 300 Ambulances Does Not Mean You’ve Outperformed NDC – Ofosu Kwakye To NPP

Former Deputy Minister of Information under the erstwhile Mahama administration, Felix Kwakye Ofosu believes the acquisition of 300 ambulances by the current NPP government only solves a minute fraction of the country’s numerous health problems.

Speaking on Joy News’ News File over the weekend, Mr. Ofosu Kwakye stated that the procurement of these ambulances comes no where near the investments made by the NDC in the nation’s overall healthcare sector.

“When you buy 300 ambulances and you do little else, you cannot say you have done more than the previous government. So with the delivery of healthcare sector, Professor Mills bought 127 ambulances. If, by the time that President Akufo Addo came 55 were left, it simply means some of them had broken down”.

According to him, buying 300 ambulances is incomparable to the NDC building “a teaching hospital, a 650-bed hospital, the one that has provided a 420-bed regional hospital, the one that has 22 polyclinics, 14 district hospitals and the one that has 1600 CHPS compounds”.

“How do you term that with 300 ambulances you have done well than the previous party? It simply will not make sense and that will be an illogical argument,” he adds.

The Akuffo Addo led government in its bid to boost emergency healthcare services in the country bought over 300 brand new ambulances which was distributed to each of the constituencies across the country.

The ambulances were procured under the government Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme (IPEP) currently being implemented by the Ministry of Special Development Initiatives.

Source: GhanaFeed.Com