The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has disclosed that personnel working for the service are still not on any form of insurance despite the dangers associated with their work.
This was disclosed by ADO1 Alex Nartey in an interview on Frontline on Rainbow Radio 87.5FM.
He said,’Fire personnel don’t have any form of insurance. What we have is what all other public service workers enjoy, which is known as workman compensation. Even with that, you would have to use your own resources and later the receipt for you to be reimbursed after something.
He said it took the intervention of the leadership of GNFS to support some personnel who got injured in the line of their duties recently.
According to Mr. Alex Nartey, the GNFS has dedicated officers who are committed to dealing with emergency situations such as fires, floods, accidents, and so on.
He also lamented that several of their fire engines are out of date and will need to be replaced.
Some of the engines, he stated, were over 20 years old and needed to be replaced.
He pointed out that the engine, which was new to their fleet of fire engines, was 14 years old.
He added that the previous administration had promised to buy them new fire engines, which could work.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
