We have only about eight paramedics in the country – Dr Ayensu-Danquah

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  • Dr Mumbi Seraki 1 day ago

    Hello youth of Ghana. You can take your own life with medicine.......for instance 15 paracetamol at once......or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide.

  • OPO 1 day ago

    KWASIA - SHOULD YOU COME TO TV AND COMPLAIN ON SUCH ISSUES ´?
    YOU FOOL PASS GARI: HWY NOT GO STRAIGH TO PRESIDENT MAHAMA OFFICE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT SUCH EMERGENCY ISSUES:?
    SUCH MATTERS NEED NOT TO BE TALK OR DISCUSS ON TV:
    ...
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  • +31 6 39174654 23 hours ago

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  • Test2 23 hours ago

    ABUA ARE YOU AFRAID TO HEAR THE TRUTH ABOUT YOUR FILTHY HOSPITALS AND YOUR CORRUPT POLITICIANS
    OFORI ATTA YOUR FINANCE MINISTER WAS IN AMERICA WITH YOUR STOLEN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO CURE HIMSELF IN AMERICAN HOSPITAL
    BU ...
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  • ST GHFUO: Kwame Nkrumah International Airport 20 hours ago

    Ghana is hell on earth because we have fools disguised as leaders..where is the health minister? Ita good she discussed this in the open this is a huge disgrace to the country and the health ministry smh

  • Banduri Naaba 1 day ago

    This is so serious .We need more trained paramedics then .One hardly sees a CPR/FIRST AID at the sight of an accident in Ogyakrom.

  • NANA TRUMU TRUMU ADDO 1 day ago

    OPO, ARE YOU INSANE OR YOU ARE ON DRUGS TO INSULT THIS BEAUTIFUL LADY WHO IS SPECIALISED IN FISTULA OPERATIONS?. A WELL LEARNED LADY. POLITICS IN GHANA IS NOT WORTH IT TO BE PART. WHO THE HELL ARE YOU TO INSULT HER. DO YOU HA ...
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  • Test2 23 hours ago

    ATTENTION ALL GHANAIANS
    YOU ARE ALL IN TROUBLE IN CASE YOU NEED EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
    EIII THIS IS SERIOUS
    40 MILLION PEOPLE WITH EIGHT TRAINED PARAMEDICS
    AFTER ALMOST 70YRS OF INDEPENDENCE
    YOUR POLITICIANS WIL ...
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  • John 23 hours ago

    PLEASE BE CAREFUL DEPUTY MINISTER.
    This is a country trying to to woo investors and tourists and you publicly say we have only 8 paramedics. That’s a scare to the outside world. Such issues should be addressed privately a ...
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  • Maama the Gonja mafia. 23 hours ago

    Mahama is the first for all but for the bad reasons:

    1. The first vice president to be investigated by his boss
    2. His brother buys private jet anytime he comes to power.
    3. His brother is always given mineral deposits w ...
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  • UNP 21 hours ago

    I think, all major roads should have specialized emergency hospitals to handle accident cases. For example, Tamale Techiman, Kumasi road should have about 2 emergency hospitals. Accra-Kumasi (about 3), etc. This will help sav ...
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  • Asembenia 19 hours ago

    Instead of working to equipped the country with the necessary essentials to safe people's lives, we are debating on LGBTQ and building churches that we don't need.
    Shameful leaders that goes to parliament to exchange insults ...
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  • Asembenia 19 hours ago

    Sad, very sad !
    We should make our priorities straight in the next 4yrs while Mahama is in office. Police officers should be equipped with cameras, and decent pay raises to officers, and nurses. These people protect us all ...
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  • OZYMANDIAS 14 hours ago

    It seems like this woman knows her stuff. What she is saying is exactly what happens in well equipped jurisdictions. In Ghana however, we operate under the “ hit-and-run l” system. Touch and Go. That is the reason why man ...
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  • JULOR CAESAR 10 hours ago

    With so many nurses in Ghana, why not recruit nurses to become paramedics? Also, the country should have no problem providing needed ambulances for all the regions if the thievery and looting were seriously tackled. The count ...
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  • Ben 4 hours ago

    Serious
    Priority on legal education Parliament

  • Busiah 1 hour ago

    Hire some now you have the power.

  • Anthony 1 hour ago

    Meanwhile, we are producing hundreds of lawyers every year. This is a classical example of our lack of planning and stupidity as a nation. The black man is not capable of ruling itself. Quite often, we prove to the world that ...
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  • George 1 hour ago

    I urge all Ghanaians /Africans to watch the YouTube channel called "Bantucitydiaries". It's a channel which spells out intellectually why we Africans are lagging behind as people. This channel is worth watching.