The Ministry of health has released 40 pickup vehicles to the Ghana Health Service to enhance its healthcare service delivery.
The 40 pick-up vehicles purchased and handed over by government are expected to facilitate the smooth movement of personnel in the discharge of their duties.
They are to assist movement to hard-to-reach areas where healthcare delivery is highly challenged.
The Minister of Health, Dr Bernard Okoe Boye, while handing over the vehicles to the Director-General of the Service, entreated the users to ensure the judicious use of the vehicles.
“We have hospitals, health centers and CHPS compounds across the country that have to move on the highways to get medicines. We have occasions when doctors must be picked from the districts or from hospitals to the districts to do outreaches.
We have District Directors at distant places who need to move to remote areas to ensure that vaccines for kids are delivered and the delivery is monitored. So, I am happy to present these 40 pick-ups to the GHS to advance the course of healthcare service,” he stated.
The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Patrick Kumah-Aboagye said the vehicles will meet one of the major needs of the agency.
“The Service is represented in all the 261 districts managing at least eight thousand facilities across the country, and so this helps us to move not only staff for work, but also reaching the communities with service and making sure that the health centres, CHPS compounds and outreaches, especially dropping staff in communities and providing information services. It’s going to really help us.
Especially, in the remotest part of the country. We are ensuring that these ones are going to the most needy districts to make sure we improve the healthcare at all the levels,“ he said.
The Ghana Health Service assured of proper maintenance routine for the trucks.
