Five ‘last mile’ communities in the Upper West Region receive five ambulances after years of struggling to access healthcare
Nadogobo Suglo remembers the night his son got hurt. There had been an accident. The boy needed a hospital, fast. But Suglo's village sits far from town, at the end of a road full of holes and loose stones. There was no ambulance to call. No car nearby. Just neighbours, and a long, slow search for someone, anyone, with a way to move a dying boy. Help never came in time. "It was difficult to get someone to help take him to the hospital, because of the bad road," Suglo says. "Before help could arrive, he lost his life." Years have passed. Suglo says he has never been the same. Not far away, Sadia Razak carries a similar grief. She is a mother of five, and she remembers her aunt, pregnant, going into labour with no way to reach a hospital. There was no ambulance then either. No car. By the time anyone found a way to move her, it was too late.