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

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  • Dr Mumbi Seraki 1 month 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 month 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 1 month ago

    Contact us for jobs in Russia and military training included. 1000 USD per week wages

  • Test2 1 month 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 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago

    Serious
    Priority on legal education Parliament

  • Busiah 1 month ago

    Hire some now you have the power.

  • Anthony 1 month 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 month 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.

  • Capt Adabuga 1 month ago

    So what are you doing as a healthcare practitioner and a minister? Always lamenting, no solutions

  • Kofi Akwetey 1 month ago

    "Only about eight"? How many exactly, Minster? Seven? Eight ? Nine? If there are only so few, the Minister should know the exact figure before spouting any figure in public.

  • Kwame 1 month ago

    There was an event that I attended with my children, my nephews and nices.
    At the even of the event some soft drinks were distributed. One of my nephews fell down, a Fanta bottle in his hand got broken and he had a pib cut ...
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