Government procures over 200 Ambulances to National Ambulance Service

Government is to procure 275 new ambulances for the National Ambulance Service. This is to augment the few ones in the country.
 
The whole of the country has only 165 ambulances serving over 25 million citizens. 

For some time now, the service has been complaining of lack of ambulances.
 
According to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Ambulance Service, Prof. Ahmed Nuhu Zakaria, the number is below the internationally accepted ratio which is 25,000 people to one ambulance.

The 275 ambulances will be distributed to the constituencies, thus one constituency one ambulance.  

A source at the National Ambulance service told GBC's Radio Ghana that the agreement process is far advanced and very soon the ambulances will be shipped into the country. 

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