Ambulance For Sale: Stan Dogbe Contests Ambulance Service’s Statement

Stan Dogbe has fished out an online post to contest the National Ambulance Service’s statement discrediting the sale of a Ghana-branded ambulance in Dubai.

The Chief executive Officer of Woezer TV is demanding more clarifications from the Service after laying hold of a Facebook post by SK Motors FZCO, a Dubai-based car dealer on May 23 announcing the sale of the vehicles.

“SK Motors FZCO, the Dubai-based car dealer the National Ambulance Service of the Republic of Ghana said in a statement on Monday were the manufacturers of a set of Ambulances being procured, had earlier on May 23, 2023, put up for sale on its Facebook what it described as New Toyota Hiace GL 2024 Ambulances,” Dogbe said in a Facebook post.

According to him, the details of the ambulance the company put up for sale are the same as that of the ambulance that appeared in the viral video.

“SK Motors has this evening deleted the earlier Facebook advert of the GoG advert, but folks had saved the post before they were prompted to delete,” he added.

The Ambulance service is yet to respond to this.

Background
In a video shared on social media, a Toyota Hiace ambulance branded in National Ambulance Service colours was parked among other cars at a garage in Dubai.

Accompanying commentary alleged that it was for sale.

But a statement from the service on Monday said the Toyota Hiace ambulance is part of 26 ambulances the government is in the process of procuring through funding from the World Bank.

Additionally, it said the venue where the vehicles were captured is the premises of its manufacturer.

“It is therefore not true that the ambulance is there for sale.”

“The manufacturing processes are over and very soon the ambulances will be shipped into Ghana. We, therefore, entreat the general public to disregard the video in circulation and commentary made by the person who made the video,” it said.