It is unfortunate that primitive thinking and trivialization of otherwise critical issues of life and death have locked on the drone-delivered medical stuff project.
The subtle agenda is to give it a bad name and incite the good people of this country against it thereby stalling it.
Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia who has been at the forefront of the initiative, as he has other life-changing programmes in the country, continues to suffer NDC bad-mouthing for the feat.
The major hurdles towards the launching of critical medical supplies-bearing drones in the skies as they head for otherwise inaccessible and inclement terrains have been surmounted safe one: the negative ranting of the NDC.
In a social media post, one of their drone-averse activists asked whether motorbikes are no longer available to do such deliveries. He added ‘we should stop playing in this country.’ Playing? A government which is rehabilitating a railway system long gone moribund, having a record number of students in school through a free SHS module, brought back to life a near dead health insurance scheme and injected a lease of life into a collapsing banking system among others, is sure not playing.
Those playing are those being prankish with serious matters bordering on the health of the country. They are playing and exhibiting crass ignorance who think emergency blood supplies can be delivered to their destinations through sweating okada riders. Such display of ignorance about the fact of blood transfusion and delivery following strict international standards is the factor occasioning the cacophony and balderdash.
For those whose political enterprise when they were in government and even outside was fraught with fraud, the tendency to smell rat in any initiative not originating from them should not be surprising. That is why they are imagining that the NPP is doing what they would have done were they at the helm.
Government deserves plaudits for adhering to the laid-down best procurement practices in the matter of the drone project even before the unmanned craft are airborne. They could not have done otherwise with mischief being the lot of the opposition in the country.
We must salute also the majority side for allowing the minority to have their say so the matter can be subjected to further checks even as really there is no smoking gun. For an industry in which Zipline rules, hardly having a competitor and in the face of the criticalness of the subject, we do not know what alternative under the circumstances could have been better than sole-sourcing.
Saving lives through hi-tec innovation such as drones in a country which was denied good roads and an effective ambulance service during their tenure is of course a priority. To describe such efforts in reducing mortality rates occasioned by childbirth blood loss as misplaced priority is sheer wickedness, more so when this is originating from Hon Yieleh Chireh, one of the elders of the NDC who hails from the Upper West Region. Misplaced priority? Of course not. Fly, fly drone health emergency service!
Source: Daily Guide
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CLEARLY SLY HAS NOT READ THE AGREEMENT. THE VERY ISSUES THE AGREEMENT ADDRESSED ARE THE VERY ISSUES HE IS RAISING HERE. TYPICAL OF HIS NDC, THEY DO NOT READ. AND WHEN THEY READ AT ALL, THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND. THE GOVERNMENT IS FOCUSED AND THE DRONE PROJECT WILL COME OFF. THE NPP IS VOTED FOR TO MOVE THE COUNTRY FORWARD AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE DOING.
We need to be intelligent in our arguments here, have you asked the basic questions surrounding the need for and operation of such as service in this country. Which not so easily accessible areas are you referring to? Are you delivering the intended items to individual homes which you classify as inaccessible or to the same health facilities in these localities which have been operating since any political party was established in Ghana. If its the same health facilities then where from the inaccessible centres are you referring to. We live in a country where people have no access to beds in hospitals, people have no access to hospitals in their localities, doctors refuse postings to under developed communities, patients right to health care is denied by the government and even the same health practitioners. If this government really cares about the health of its citizens, then where lies its priorities. The rudiments of health access and care have not been considered but the extravagance and opulence in service is placed first. Critical thinking is what is needed to build a nation and not thinking with political caps. If it's wrong its wrong. If its misplaced its misplaced, there is no bothering on politics in this matter. The government has misplaced priorities. These same blood that you want to transport with the drones, has the government checked and verified with the various blood banks to ascertain their supplies? The drugs to be delivered, are there checks to verify if there are qualified personnels to handle what is delivered by the drones. Please think straight and think right and stop putting politics in everything
These same NDC cr!m!nals supported the rotten bus branding, GYEDA, SADA, Wayome payments, 2014 Brazil world cup rot, took double salaries for years and many rotten deals under John Ford Mahama..... Today they are behaving as if they are angels. We must vote them out of parliament in 2020. Tweaaaaaaaaaaa. NDC is a cr!m!nal gang of thi.eves.