Immediate past General Secretary for the Ghana Association of Biomedical Laboratory Scientists, Micheal Amo Omari has disclosed that no laboratory Scientist has been consulted on the drone healthcare delivery programme.
“I am saying this for a fact that no Laboratory Scientist or any of our stakeholder bodies have been consulted on the 12.5 million-dollar drone contract project,” he said.
According to him, no laboratory Scientist is against the introduction or implementation of the Zipline project, but the country at its health delivery level presently is not ready to welcome such a programme and has no credentials to efficiently manage it.
He stated that the state will benefit more should government use the loan allocated for the Zipline contract to build more laboratory centres in the places targeted for the project, since there are a lot of prominent arrangements needed in the health sector than drone-delivery technology of blood and medicine.
Mr. Amo Omari in an interview on UTV’s Friday edition of ‘Adekye Nsroma’ rogramme insisted, “Indeed drone technology cannot control loss of lives as perceived as the brain behind the drone technology invention”.
“Equipment, employment of staffs and policy guidelines for work implementation are very challenging problems facing the health sector that when not well addressed cannot make the zipline policy work effectively,” he advised.
Source: Elizabeth Semiheva Bedi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Ghana is ready but once a worn torn country 15 years ago is ready.The IMF director who visited Ghana three week ago was praising Rwanda for that move.Lee Ocran told Ghanaians free SHS is not possible.Tecnology has come to stay, lets embrace it and as a scientist bring your suggestions to improve the system. You cannot tell us that if there is a snake bite at say Donkorkrom in the Afram Plains and the Drone can deliver such a medicine in no time is not important. Nothing id impossible for people with a vision.Hail this government with its laudable ideas and modernisation attitude in every sector of the economy.It takes time to adjust to change.
Mr Michael Amo Omari tell me WHEN WILL GHANA BE READY for the drone healthcare delivery system. WHEN? Aaaaah! when at all will these so called intellectuals ever get off their high horses. Just because no scientist was consulted does not mean progress and development cannot take place in Ghana. Since independence show me one innovative advancement made in Ghana by the likes of you have ever made for the country? As a laboratory scientist what contribution have you made to your own local community in terms of infrastructure etc to help with health delivery? All you know is that we were not consulted and so it won't work. What a lame duck excuse of scientist. If we don't start from somewhere, we will never get to anywhere. ENOUGH OF THESE N0N$£NS£.
I think Micheal Amo Omari should read on this very site the article "The novelty of drones, IMANI's position and the lives at risk" written by Dr. Appiah and Samuel Sarpong. Even though he agrees it is a good thing but he wants the $12 million dollars which govt is not paying but a service contract to be used to solve ALL the problems facing the health sector; incredible isn't it.
I am getting sick and tired of all these worms crawling out of the woodwork to spew all kinds of n0ns3nse anytime a new policy is floated. Everybody wants to be consulted.Anybody remotely connected to the health sector wants to be heard. Association of bathers of cadavers ,Association of mortuary workers, Association of window cleaners at the hospitals..... Christ what kind of country is this? I bet Rwanda's health sector is not that much different from ours.How come they are successfully implementing this scheme.I'll tell you how. The president of Rwanda is not encumbered by all these so called democratic governance rules .He does things and you can burn the sea if you disagree. Besides Rwanda does not have a poisonous opposition made up of greedy , conniving ***barred word*** who are led by a creep hell bent on coming back to power simply to l00t.
Those who are talking negatively about the use of dronnes to supply medical products should shut-up. This is an advancement.
Technology will make you guys redundant in the near future. What has drones got to do with your job, get out of the box, medical technology is here to stay.
There are toooon many f000**00ls in Ghana and every f00*00l want to be heard. Agyimifuo no dooso dodo! who are you to be consulted on a government project? the government has a mandate to do what is best for the people there is mo were in the constitution that advices government to see you before business goes on,nkwas*easem de3 mote bi ! educate those so called intellectuals who think they are itching but have to talk to get attention they should hide! we haven't voted for them, if the government likes thats when they can choose to consult you but it's not obligatory! mofa mo nkwase*a akeka no nko do.
Most of these Biomedical Laboratory are NDC MEMBERS. SO THEY ARE WEARING POLITICS SPECTACLES. THIS PROJECT IS COMMOM SEN-SE, IT IS LIKE PAY AS GO. IS WHEN THEY NEED IT THEY SUPPLIED THEM with the DRONE
WETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT, TECHNOLOGY HAS COME TO STAY. PEOPLE ADAPT OR BE LEFT BEHIND. CHANGE IS DIFFICULT WE KNOW,,
I hope the powers that be would take a clue