The Head of the National Ambulance Service Professor Ahmed Zakaria has revealed that the robbers who attacked an ambulance in the Eastern Region did not only shoot the driver but also sexually harrased the paramedic.
He says the morale of the Service has been dumpened by the event.
“We are all at a loss and up till now we have not recovered, one will have assumed they maybe mistook it for a police vehicle, but for the robbers to get close and identify it as an ambulance, shoot the driver and force the patient compartment centre open and still go ahead and rob them is something we can’t come to terms with. They robbed the paramedic of her phone and even went ahead to fondle her breast and the lady is traumatized”, he told Joy News.
The ambulance driver, Abraham Tetteh who was shot by armed robbers while conveying a pregnant woman in labour died at the Korle-bu Teaching Hospital in Accra.
He died on Saturday morning while on admission.
He had sustained a gunshot wound to the eye.
The late Abraham Tetteh was the Yilo Krobo Municipal Officer in charge of the National Ambulance Service.
It will be recalled that on Friday, Mr. Tetteh was conveying a pregnant woman from the Akuse Government Hospital to the Koforidua Regional Hospital when his van was attacked by highway robbers.
The driver and the pregnant woman were later rushed to the hospital after being rescued by a police patrol team.
Giving details about the attack, the Deputy Eastern Regional Administrative Manager for the National Ambulance Service, Felix Owusu said about 1:30 am the team run into 8 armed robbers at Abebease.
According to him, the robbers, upon seeing the ambulance with the siren beacon lights, thought it was the police.
This triggered the shootout, which resulted in the injuries sustained by the driver.
He added that the robbers also extorted money from the occupants of the ambulance.
