A viral video has surfaced showing how personnel of the National Ambulance Service manoeuvre their way in heavy Accra traffic to convey a referred patient to a hospital.
The viral video showed personnel of the National Ambulance Service urgently conveying a critical referral patient from Dzorwulu to the Family Health Hospital in Teshie.
In a post shared on X by SIKAOFFICIAL, read, “Dashcam footage showing a National Ambulance Service ambulance urgently conveying a critical referral patient from Dzorwulu to the Family Health Hospital in Teshie”.
Netizens reacting to the viral video wrote, “Even in an emergency abroad like in Europe, ambulances 🚑 and emergency vehicles will never follow one way.
Instead, citizens know to pull up by the side and allow passage.
What if an accident happens when taking one way?”.
One X user added, “Wrong, very wrong. You can only do this if the traffic control room gives access by redirecting traffic and giving you a motorcade escort. Very unprofessional. Even the traffic he has running from it is not heavy. Misuse of emergency vehicle for right call”.
A netizen added, “Some of the drivers weren’t helpful. More education needs to be done. You hear the siren of an emergency vehicle; you yield the right-of-way”.
“Hmm, it’s not easy, but we will surely get there 🙏🏽
1. Emergency lanes at major traffic intersections
2. Not too distant referral facilities”, a netizen added.
“I think our national TV stations and police have to educate people concerning about these emergency cases. Sometimes it seems people don’t understand the meaning of an ambulance. @GhPoliceService please educate people and drivers concerning our emergency vehicles”, one last netizen added.
The video has surfaced at a time when the family of the late engineer Charles Amissah has filed a lawsuit against three hospitals, several medical professionals and the Attorney General following the death of their brother.
According to the family, the suit follows a chain of negligent acts that led to her brother’s death after a road accident in Accra.
Dr Matilda Amissah, acting as administratrix of the estate of her late brother, Charles Amissah, is seeking GH¢20 million in damages, alleging negligence across multiple health facilities led to his death at the High Court in Accra over the February 2026 incident.
The Ghana Police Hospital, Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, several doctors and nurses attached to the facilities, as well as the Attorney General’s Department, have all been named in the suit.
According to the statement of claim filed before the High Court, Charles Henry Amissah was involved in a hit-and-run accident on the Kwame Nkrumah Circle Overpass at about 10:30 p.m. on February 6, 2026.
It added that after Amissah failed to return home, relatives reported him missing at the Adentan Police Station. Four days later, the family was contacted by officers at the Nima Police Station and informed that an accident victim.
She further told the court that upon arrival at the hospital mortuary, the family found the body in a decomposing state outside the cold room, infested with maggots.
It will be recalled that for close to three hours on February 6, 2026, Charles Amissah, the victim, was denied treatment by Ridge, Police, and Korle Bu hospitals before passing away.
He was later identified as 29-year-old Charles Amissah, an engineer working at Promasidor Ghana Limited, producers of Cowbell milk and other food products.
Watch the video below:
Dashcam footage showing a National Ambulance Service ambulance urgently conveying a critical referral patient from Dzorwulu to the Family Health Hospital in Teshie.
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