The Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KNCCI) Kisii County Chairman, Benjamin Onkoba has raised concern over the bureaucracy involved in accessing emergency ambulance vehicles from the Kisii County Government to the detriment of the patients.
Onkoba lamented that, the ambulances acquired by the Kisii County Government through a Private Public Partnership (PPP) arrangement with the Kenya Red Cross Society had become a challenge to the area residents, since they are controlled from Nairobi and before an ambulance vehicle is released there should be a command from headquarters in Nairobi.
Speaking at Gusii Stadium during the marking of this year's Madaraka Day celebrations, Onkoba challenged Kisii Governor James Ongwae to address the long process which area residents went through to access the emergency ambulance services offered by the County Government.
"I am asking you on behalf of Kisii County residents to consider making the emergence ambulance services convenient to the local community members and have instructions of authorizing and releasing the vehicles originate from the Kisii County Government instead of us calling someone in Nairobi to authorize the release of the ambulance meant to address an emergence," appealed Onkoba.
Onkoba observed that, the process involved in authorizing the ambulances to the clients with a patient took a long process, making it lack its mean8ing of providing emergency services to the area residents whose needs the vehicles are supposed to serve.