DA calls on North West Health Dept to sell off scrap ambulances
2 June 2018
The Democratic Alliance (DA) will write to the North West MEC for Health, Dr Magome Masike, asking him to immediately dispose of the hundreds of scrap ambulances at the North West Health Department depot in Vryburg and Schweizer-Reneke.
On an oversight inspection last week Friday, the DA was shocked by the large number of scrap ambulances found at the depot.
Some of the ambulances could have been used but due to mismanagement of government resources the fleet of ambulances was left unused and gathering dust. See pictures here and here.
Many of the ambulances are now unsalvageable and can only be used for parts as this practice of dumping vehicles has continued for nearly a decade now. Our ambulance fleets in the Province are ageing and we need urgent intervention to either sell the old ambulances or to scrap them.