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Bono Regional Hospital appeals for special ambulance for children

Officials at the hospital in the Bono regional capital say the present ambulance service is not child-friendly and is too expensive for most paediatric patients

The head of the paediatric unit at Bono Regional Hospital, Dr Esinam Nyarko, has appealed for a paediatric ambulance to make it easier for children to be transferred from one hospital to another.

According to Dr Nyarko, the current ambulance service is unsuitable and not child-friendly.

“Most of our patients cannot afford it,” Dr Nyarko told officials of the Ghana Health Service governing council. “I think it’s too much – GHC800 just to move a patient from here to Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.

“When we want to refer, it means that there is the need for it, and then the back and forth is just too much. Even calling the ambulance, before they come, their first question is, ‘Can they afford it?’ We are more concerned about the paediatric-friendly ambulance because most of the ambulances are not child-friendly,” she said.

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Dr Nyarko said that, to reduce neonatal mortalities, they have started a project dubbed “Operation Zemot” – “zero mortality” in the region.

The GHS council team, led by William Frimpong Bonsu, was in the Bono Region to acquaint itself with operations of local health facilities.

They toured the Bono Regional Hospital, visiting the CT scan lab, obstetrics and gynaecology unit, neonatal and intensive care unit and the COVID test lab.

 

At a staff durbar during the visit by the GHS council, members assured the staff that their concerns will be addressed.

“We don’t want to sit in Accra. We have to formulate policies and programmes. But we want to see (at first hand) the challenges and difficulties and also some of the best practices that they are implementing.

“So it would inform our policies and programmes to also support the management of the Ghana Health Service to deliver quality service,” Bonsu said.

Daniel Donkor

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