#Release the ambulances now -Social media reacts to Akufo-Addo’s wait-for-January 2020 response
Some social media users have started a campaign to pressurize President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to distribute some 60 parked ambulances.
The ambulances have been parked at the State House compound waiting for several more as the government works to fulfill its promise to provide 275 ambulances.
The New Patriotic Party in 2016 promised ‘One ambulance, one constituency’
A BBC Africa report in May 2018 stated, there were only 55 ambulances serving the over 24 million Ghanaians in all its sixteen regions.
At the Media Encounter with the President, a journalist wanted to know why the ambulances have been parked while the emergency healthcare sector continues to suffer.
President Akufo-Addo in his response said, “I saw myself getting into tremendous amount of issues if I started distributing some and others didn’t get it”, fortunately for us, all of them would be in by the end of this month.”
“Around 60 are already in and the other ones are on the high seas and will be here; by the end of the month, 300 would be here; on the 6th of January, I would commission them then the distribution would take place simultaneously across the country and nobody is going to accuse me of favoritism, regionalism”.
The Presidents response did not sit well with some Ghanaians. It has generated a social media uproar with the hashtag #releasetheambulancesnow