With Support from World Bank, the Ministry of Health on Friday November 6, 2020 donated two brand new ambulances to the Bong County Heath Team (BCHT).
It can be recalled, lately October of this year, the Ministry of Health (MOH) received ten (10) new hard top ambulances from the World Bank to ensure the safe transfer of patients to health facilities across the Country.
Presenting the keys of the two ambulances to authorities of the Bong County Health Team, Jusu Karpu, a representative from the Ministry of health Transport Division said the Vehicles were donated to MoH by World Bank for onward distribution, of which Bong County was included.
He explained that Health authorities in the County, have on several occasions engage the Ministry about the lack of emergency vehicles, a situation he said government needed to promptly address.
“In the past time Bong County has been out of ambulances, so we deem it necessary to donate these ambulances to the Bong County Heath Team following so many calls from the authorities” Mr. Karpu stated.
The MoH representative also urged drivers expected to be assigned as operators, to take good care of the ambulances as they have been doing in the past.
He believes with the help of the administration; the two cars will properly be maintained.
Receiving the keys and other documents of the of two new to and from vehicles, the newly appointed County Health Team Officer Dr. Jonathan Flomo extended thanks and appreciation to the Ministry of Health and World Bank for timely solving the problem of Ambulance in the County’s health system.
Dr. Flomo noted that with the availability of the two ambulances, it will help ease the tension of referral in the County, improve service delivery and and also curtail the number of maternal deaths.
He said the Health Team had previously planned to include service delivery, but was impossible due to the lack of ambulances for the transportation of referral cases.
The Bong County Heath Team Officer stated that his region needed these vehicles, because the county doesn’t have so many health facilities that are providing surgical services with the exception of C. B. Dunbar, Phebe and Bong Mines Hospitals.
He at the same time promised to use the ambulances donated for the purpose intended and also maintain them properly.
The donation was made at the County Health Team head office in Suakoko, Bong County
On the contrary, the Ministry of Health recently began withdrawing medical doctors at the Phebe hospital in suakoko Bong County for the alleged failure of the hospital’s board to allocate administrative slots to government.
