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NAS 2008 POW. NAS. Dr. AHMED. N. ZAKARIAH DIRECTOR. NAS. “Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy”. Izaak Walton.

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  1. NAS 2008 POW. NAS Dr. AHMED. N. ZAKARIAH DIRECTOR. NAS

  2. “Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy”. Izaak Walton

  3. Consequence of Untreated, Progressive Respiratory or Circulatory Failure

  4. Chain of Survival

  5. BACKGROUND. THIS IS HOW IT STARTED • IT WAS FUN. IT WAS BLOODY. IT WAS MESSY

  6. IT WAS DEADLY SOME SURVIVED OTHERS WERE NOT LUCKY CONFUSION @ THE MORTURARY. LOST A LOVE ONE

  7. SOMETHING WE SHOULD NEVER FORGET • Tragedy@Accra Sports Stadium on May 9th 2001

  8. BACKGROUND • The need to establish a Nation Wide Ambulance and Emergency Service - to bridge a long standing gap - • Head of State in his Annual Sessional address to Parliament in 2002 (after the unfortunate incident) charged the Ministry of Health and its collaborators to establish a Nation Wide Ambulance Service -to provide effective Pre-hospital care.

  9. H • National Ambulance Service (NAS) with the inception of seven (7) pilot stations (PS) in three (3) regions at the end of 2004 • Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) trained.

  10. General distribution list REGION:NO OF STATIONS • CENTRAL 2 • GREATER ACCRA 6 • ASHANTI 5 • EASTERN 4 • WESTERN 0 • UPPER EAST 0 • UPPER WEST 0 • NORTHERN 0 • VOLTA 2 • BRONG AHAFO 0 • CONTROL ROOMS 2 • TOTAL 19 STATIONS • AND 2 CONTROL ROOMS

  11. LOCATION OF AMBULANCE STATIONS BY REGIONS AS AT END OF 2006.

  12. CASE CLASIFICATION 2006

  13. Needforservice? Itcouldbeyour Son/daughter DAD ENTIRE FAMILY Brother/sis/wife

  14. Or even yourself

  15. So help us and you are helping yourselves because: TIMELY CARE SAVES LIVES

  16. 2008 POW • Thrust for 2008 is to increase access to emergency care through the establishment and operation of an efficient nationwide ambulance service.

  17. Priority Activities • Establish 6 additional ambulance stations • Recruit and train 100 emergency medical technicians (EMT)- Basics and upgrade the skills of 45 EMT- Basics to EMT- Advanced. • Introduce a program to ensure timely and efficient management of emergencies • Screen and immunize at risk EMTs against hepatitis B • Strengthen the functional and communication linkages between NAS, facility based ambulance and health facilities • Finalise the NAS bill for approval by cabinet and passage by parliament

  18. Expected Results • Six new ambulance stations established • Six districts with functional ambulance services • One hundred EMT-Bs trained and 45 EMT- Bs upgraded • Immunisation of 100% EMTs against hepatitis B

  19. SUMMARY 2008 to be the beginning of the process of building an effective EMS for Ghana

  20. Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is bliss, taste it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it. ---Mother Theresa

  21. TO BE CONTINUED IN...2008 THANK YOU

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