Ghana's premier pre-hospital emergency care provider — saving lives across every district since 2004.
The May 9 stadium disaster claimed 127 lives, galvanising national resolve.
Established with 9 ambulances and 69 EMTs across 3 regions.
From a seven-station pilot to a district-wide national service.
NAS pilots with 69 EMTs poached from Fire Service, 9 ambulances, and 7 stations covering just 9% of Ghana's population.
Expanded to 37 ambulances, 176 EMTs, 24 stations. Emergency number 993 introduced nationally.
A standalone EMT training campus established. Fleet grows to 199 ambulances, 673 EMTs, 121 stations.
1,651 EMTs, 199 ambulances, 128 stations, exceeding 13,000 annual emergency responses.
NAS became critical to Ghana's pandemic response, deploying teams for patient transport and medical standby at isolation centres.
NAS celebrates two decades of service, now operating in every district of Ghana with 17 dispatch control rooms and over 3,000 trained EMTs.
NAS currently has 319 stations with over 3000 staff and 19 dispatch centers across the country...
To provide integrated, high quality, pre-hospital emergency and medical care, health transport, medical retrieval and education services to all people in Ghana — through a system of trained operational staff and committed support staff in a compassionate, dignified, and professional manner.
To be a world class Emergency Medical Service that provides the highest quality and most cost-effective emergency health care to the people of Ghana, through enthusiastic, well-trained, and dedicated staff — ensuring that no Ghanaian is beyond reach of timely emergency care.
We respond to every call with empathy and genuine human care — treating every patient with dignity and respect, regardless of circumstance.
Our EMTs uphold the highest standards of clinical practice, continuous training, and service excellence in every response they perform.
We operate with transparency, accountability, and ethical conduct — earning the trust of every individual and community we serve.
From dispatch to bedside, our strength lies in seamless collaboration — paramedics, drivers, dispatchers, and support staff united by one purpose.
We continually seek better tools, protocols, and technologies to improve response times and patient outcomes across every corner of Ghana.
Every response, every resource, every decision is tracked, reviewed, and reported — ensuring continuous improvement and public trust.
As a statutory agency under the Ministry of Health, the National Ambulance Service is mandated to deliver comprehensive pre-hospital emergency care across every corner of Ghana.
Provide standby emergency cover at mass public events and coordinate with other emergency services during disaster incidents across Ghana.
Deliver first-line emergency care to accident victims; road traffic, domestic, industrial, and medical emergencies of every category.
Establish and operate triage centres and makeshift hospitals during mass casualty situations in partnership with national agencies.
Transport accident victims and critically ill patients from incident scenes and between healthcare facilities safely and without interruption to care.
Formulate and implement training programmes for community first responders, extending emergency reach beyond ambulance coverage zones.
Identify, recruit, and train specialised emergency medical cadres through the PECTS campus, Ghana's premier EMS training institution.
