The National Ambulance Service (NAS) has assured its personnel that the necessary security measures are being put in place to guarantee their safety across the country.
The measures, it said, included getting police escorts for ambulances providing emergency services in the night across the country.
“(Operating) during the day is not as risky as during the night, so we have appealed to the sector minister to take it up with the Minister of the Interior so that they can engage the Inspector General of Police to see the security that they can provide, especially for the night emergencies,” the Chief Executive Officer of the NAS, Professor Ahmed Zakaria, told the Daily Graphic last Wednesday.
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An Ambulance driver, Senior Emergency Medical Technician (SNR EMT), Abraham Tetteh, who was shot by highway robbers on the Somanya-Adukrom road while transporting a woman in labour has died.
The late Abraham Tetteh, 40, until his demise at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra on Saturday was the Yilo Krobo Municipal officer in charge of the National Ambulance Service.
It would be recalled that highway robbers on Thursday, February 4, 2021 at about 12:00 midnight attacked the ambulance vehicle and shot the driver in the head, while rushing a woman in labour from the Akuse Government Hospital to the Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua.