FIRST INTERVENTION GHANA, CAPE COAST, GHANA

First Intervention Ghana - News Press release: Request for partnership

First Intervention Ghana (FIG), a Ghana originated voluntary basic life support ambulance and medical mission organization has been in existence since 2009 with high dedicated volunteer personalities as executive members.

Our aim is to serve as a key component of our rural health care system and to provide quality rapid response emergency medical care ambulance services in our area in addition to youth and community development programmes for sustainable human development. First Intervention Ghana also host and place internship volunteers on various facilities of their choice in Cape Coast, Ghana.

It has been established that wherever more people congregate, the potential for emergency to occur must be presumed. Thus in our work places or facilities and occasions (ceremonial, conference, tournament, hospitality, funeral, service delivery etc) and communities there must be the presence of trained first aid providers to offer emergency services and support in the event of the need arising. 

On the other front also, road accidents continually occur our roads with fatal consequences. The causes of such accidents are attributable to both human and mechanical errors. When such accidents occur, the extent of most of the fatalities and damages could be minimize where knowledge of first aid and emergency management immediately exist. Unfortunately, most of the drivers and the occupants of these vehicles lacks such knowledge hence lives and properties are lost.

Despite impressive records of training courses and numbers of trained first aiders, experience has shown that in an emergency, it is difficult to find first-aiders at the right place and at the right time, not due to lack of volunteers but due to lack of preparedness and organization.

The worse in disaster is when those with the necessary knowledge and skills to manage the situation are fewer than the victims.

The interest of First Intervention Ghana in basic life support ambulance service is primarily concerned with regards to accident and other emergency situations because administering pre-clinical care immediately by medical people with requisite First Aid knowledge may reduce needless deaths or less impact.

Certain situations in life require immediate medical care and a fraction of a second delay can drastically change somebody's life. The ambulance service and paramedics are very important in society as they save hundreds of lives daily by responding to emergency calls.

As part of our strategic plan and our quest to reduce vulnerability, mitigate needless fatalities and respond appropriately, a partnership needs to be formed with strategic organization like yours to equip us with necessary equipment to management emergency effectively.

We would therefore be grateful if a partnership is sealed between us (First Intervention Ghana) for a good course.

The partnership among other things includes:

Human Support

• • Exchange programmes for staffs
  • Training scholarships for first aiders into EMT/Paramedics

Material support

• • Spine Boards
  • Ambulance
  • Surgical Gloves
  • Stretchers
  • Reflective Jackets
  • Bandages
  • Gauze
  • Safety boots
  • Wheel chairs
  • Computers

We acknowledge your high reputation and success stories over the years, so we would like to have your rich experience for our organizational development.

We look forward to hear from any Individual Philanthropist, Voluntary Ambulance Corps, EMS Organizations, and First Responding Organization all over the world for partnership seal. Below is our contact:

Special Note: first intervention Ghana is not operating ambulance emergency services as a result of unavailability of ambulance and other emergency equipments but currently running remote area medical mission for children in Ghana.

First Intervention Ghana - News

What is First Intervention Ghana?  

First Intervention Ghana (FIG) is a volunteer based, non-profit, non-partisan, non-governmental organization (NGO) registered in Ghana and working to assist in the improvement of the lot of the vulnerable and deprived in society through volunteer programs and projects, include: emergency ambulance services, education, healthcare/medical assistance in hospitals, and clinics, remote area medical mission and community initiated projects such as painting of schools, hospitals, building washrooms, libraries, playgrounds and other integrated rural development projects.

Established in 2009, First Intervention Ghana also host and place volunteer from abroad in various area of their interest with a facilities and hospitable host families in Cape Coast, Ghana.

It is also being set up to complement the efforts in achieving the eight (8) millennium development goals and to host medical mission volunteers and organizations on sponsored medical mission in Ghana.

Where does First Intervention Ghana work, mission and vision?

First Intervention Ghana operates in the remote areas and provides emergency services to victims of accident in Ghana, Cape Coast and other remote areas.

Vision: To improve emergency basic life support services in addition to community development programmes in Ghana through constant professionalism and high volume of innovative and useful delivery methods.

Mission: To be a key component of our rural healthcare system and to provide quality rapid response emergency medical care (basic life support ambulance) and transportation services in our area, youth and community development for sustainable human development.

What do we do?

• • First Intervention Ghana hosts and place internship volunteers to facilities in Ghana.
  • We also host medical mission volunteers and organization on medical mission assignment and research in Ghana
  • We organize remote areas medical missions in Ghana
  • First Intervention Ghana provides emergency and non-emergency transportation service in Cape Coast, Ghana.
  • We work closely with our partner organizations in following areas:
    
    • Basic Life Support Ambulance Services
    • Cultural (Dancing & Drumming)
    • Fire Fighting
    • Health(medicine)
    • ICT Teaching
    • Homecare  and Visit Service
    • Orphanage Assisting
    • Public Health Outreach
    • Road Safety Education
    • School Painting
    • Education and Sport

Who do we work with?

First Intervention Ghana works closely with foreign voluntary and charitable organizations, schools, universities, high schools and local government and non-governmental organizations in Ghana.

Our Capacity:

First Intervention Ghana can possess of dedicate volunteer health and non-health care professional with devoted staffs providing lives saving activities in Ghana

Our Achievements:

Between 2009 –up- to- date, First Intervention Ghana with financial assistances from benevolent philanthropists in Cape Coast has organized community medical programmes on “Basic Health Care for Rural children and Women in Rural Areas in Central Region of Ghana and able to reach out to 1,133 children and 1,089 adult in five (5) rural communities and four (4) different political district in Central Region of Ghana. The medical mission combined wound dressing for children, blood pressure screening and provision of medication. 

Again with frequent road accident on our road highway, First Intervention Ghana in collaborations with local Ghana Red Cross and Road safety Commission in Central Region of Ghana organised basic first aid and road safety education for commercial drivers along the highway to equip them with basic first aid knowledge and skills to handle accident victims with care when the need arise. First aid box later donated to the local drivers union to help them manage any minor injuries at the station.

First Intervention Ghana can boast of nurses and first aiders as dedicated volunteers who have been over the period offered voluntary services in areas of community Medical Outreach and other social interventions programmes in rural areas of Central region. 

Also in 2011, First Intervention Ghana in collaborations with Hospice and Vocation Ghana and Life Career Guide all local NGOs to engaged about 120 youth people including Orphans and school children in career and life mentoring programme in Efutu in Central Region, Ghana. Still long-lasting our charitable mission in Ghana.