According to the National Ambulance Service, it gets at least 10,000 prank calls every day.
According to the service, this provides a significant obstacle since it prevents individuals with urgent difficulties from being responded to because they are unable to distinguish between legitimate and false calls.
Foster Ansong Bridjan, Director of Operations of the Ghana National Ambulance Service, made these revelations today, November 4, 2021.
“It has become one major challenge that we are facing because we get about 33,000 prank calls monthly and only 170 were normal calls. There are a lot of them”.
Mr. Ansong Bridjan said, “On a daily basis, we may get over 10,000 prank calls if you call the national call center.”
“It also said calls to National Ambulance Service, National Security, NADMO and others, and putting all together, we have over 10,000 prank calls every day.
“When somebody with an emergency calls, it means they have to queue”.
Concerning the measures to halt it, he said that the National Security has been contacted to investigate and catch the perpetrators.
“We have engaged national security because their system is also part of the national system. A lot of adverts have been done but we keep getting these challenges,” he said.
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