In the issue of the Republic versus a former Deputy Finance Minister, Cassiel Ato Forson, the Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, is due to come and testify in court today, June 16, 2022.
Mr Ato Forson, the Ranking Member of Parliament's Finance Committee and Minority Finance Spokesperson, has been accused of willfully inflicting financial damage to the state during the Mahama Administration's purchase of certain ambulances.
He is on trial with Sylvester Anemana, the former Chief Director of the Ministry of Health, and Richard Jakpa, a businessman.
The state is claimed to have lost 2.37 million euros as a result of the three (3).
The Health Minister will be the prosecution's third witness in this case, and he is expected to testify further. the state's case against the accused individuals
The first prosecution witness told the High Court in Accra at the most recent session that the ambulances imported in 2015/2016 did not fulfill basic requirements and specifications.
Dr. Forster Ansong-Bridjan, the National Ambulance Service's (NAS) Acting Director of Operations, informed Her Ladyship Afia Serwaa Asare-Court Botwe's that the ambulances lacked proper lighting for operations and that the patient trolley was too low and without seatbelts.
Dr. Ansong-Bridjan noted in his major evidence to the Court that the attendant's seat at the head of the patient's trolley, a swivel chair, had not been previously fitted, and that the other chairs on the side of the trolley were excessively low and uncomfortable.
would not have provided the paramedics with the necessary comfort to do their duties.
Cabinets intended to hold drugs and other consumables in the ambulance, according to the Acting Operations Chief, were designed with sharp steel edges that could easily injure the occupants, and their drawers were neither tight nor self-locking. Medical equipment for; was also missing from the ambulances.
I Patient monitoring equipment, such as a patient monitor, a blood pressure monitor, a stethoscope, a glucometer, and a pulse oximeter.
(ii) Resuscitation equipment, which includes a bag valve mask, a suction machine, a portable ventilator, and an automated external defibrillator.
(iii) Immobilization devices, such as a spine board, different types and sizes of splints, a head block, and cervical collars.
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