Even before Vice-President Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia officially launches Zipline’s drone delivery of emergency medical supplies today, the state-of-the-art technology has already saved the life of a 44-year-old driver. Today’s launch follows the completion of the infrastructure, with successful trials of the drones in the Omenako centre, near Suhum in the Eastern Region. The commencement […]
The Executive Director of the African Center for Health Policy and Research Analysis (ACH-PRA), Dr. Thomas Anaba has reacted to president Akufo-Addo’s pronouncements on the drones for medical deliveries controversy. The president during the recently held media encounter announced that the project was not going to be funded by the tax payer, but private entities […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has broken his rule of not responding to presidential candidates by reacting to former president John Dramani Mahama on the drones for medical supplies delivery initiative. The former president and NDC presidential candidate hopeful has berated the current government for the drones for medical deliveries deal, telling the government to […]
The Coalition of Unemployed Nurses have bared their teeth at the president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the ruling New Patriotic Party, for what they describe as government’s show of arrogance in the drones for medical deliveries saga. They argue that in spite of the fierce resistance that has faced the initiative and the calls […]
The Executive Director of the African Center for Health Policy Research and Analysis (ACH-PRA), Dr. Thomas Anaba has berated the Minister for Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu, describing him as someone who is incompetent to handle his portfolio. According to him, the Minister is unable to draw a dichotomy between primary healthcare and secondary healthcare, explaining […]
The former dean of the faculty of law at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Lawyer Ernest Kofi Abotsi has discounted claims that government and the Ministry of Health should have consulted the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) before seeking to sign a service agreement with the California based firm Zipline for the […]
Deputy Communications Director of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kamaldeen Abdulai has described the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) as a party that has the penchant for opposing every idea that will help accelerate the development of the country. According to him, the arguments being adduced by the opposition NDC and its assigns in […]
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has served notice that it will resist any move by the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) to operationalize the drones for medical supplies delivery project. The party is raising red flags that the main motive of government is to use the drones as election rigging machines in the 2020 […]
The Executive Director of the Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA), Mensah Thompson has chided Members of Parliament on the Majority side for passing the drones for medical deliveries deal. In his estimation, they don’t deserve to be called ‘honourable’ since there was nothing honourable about passing that deal. According to him, the […]
A medical officer and public health advocate has called on all stakeholders to discuss the merits of the drone medical supplies project devoid of sensationalism and party politics. Dr Paa Kwesi Blankson, who works with the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, therefore, appealed to all critics to make recommendations along the merits of the policy rather […]
The Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) is blaming government’s inability to smoothly implement newly introduced projects to lack of consultation. The groups’ observation comes on the back of the challenges and resistance being faced by the drones for medical supply delivery project which has generated a lot of controversy in the country. […]
Communications specialist at the Ministry of energy, Nana Damoah has lampooned the leadership of the Ghana Medical Association for its late stance on the drones for medical deliveries project. According to him, the Ghana Medical Association was in the country when the issue started and went to parliament for discussion, but remained silent all this […]
