40
vehicles
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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.