The National Ambulance Service has debunked claims that an ambulance conveying victims of the Kintampo Waterfalls disaster to Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital had been involved in an accident earlier today.
Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Ambulance Service, Simmons Yussif Kewura noted that the said ambulance which was stationed at Chiripone in the Northern Region was tasked to transport a patient from the Tamale Teaching Hospital to Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and on its way "to Kumasi between Kintampo and Techiman it collided with on-coming vehicle in an attempt to over take another vehicle in front of the ambulance".
There were earlier reports that a State-owned ambulance conveying victims of the Kintampo Waterfalls disaster to Konfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, was involved in car crash, killing the driver in the process.
The ambulance whose registration number was given as GV 375-12 was said to be carrying the victims in critical condition to the hospital when the accident occurred at a farming community called Gwenewoho.
Eyewitnesses told mynewsgh.com that the accident occurred Tuesday morning around 4am.
According to them, the Ambulance driver attempted to overtake a vehicle in front of him but unfortunately he hit a stationary vehicle in front of him and another vehicle behind him smashed the ambulance against the stationary car.
It would be recalled that a large tree fell down at the Kintampo waterfalls on Sunday, killing about 18 people and leaving over 30 others injured.
The injured were receiving treatment at the Kintampo and Techiman General Hospitals.
But in a statement, copied to Peacefmonline.com, the ambulance has no links with the Kintampo incident.
Read full statement below:
The information that is been circulated on the social media and some online networks that the National Ambulance Service ambulance car carrying victims of Kintampo waterfalls which some of them were report dead has been involved in accident was not true.
The facts on the accident involving the ambulance are that; the said ambulance was stationed at Chiripone in the Northern Region. It was tasked to transport a patient from Tamale Teaching Hospital to Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi and its way to Kumasi between Kintampo and Techiman it collided with on-coming vehicle in an attempt to over take another vehicle in front of the ambulance.
I want to emphatically state that the said ambulance has nothing to do with the Kintampo waterfall victims. Currently the driver of the Ambulance who sustained injury is responding tp treatment at Holy Family Hospital.
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