{"id":14652,"date":"2025-11-25T17:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=14652"},"modified":"2025-11-25T17:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:11:15","slug":"zipline-to-shut-down-three-centres-over-gh%c2%a2175m-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=14652","title":{"rendered":"Zipline to shut down three centres over GH\u00a2175m debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jeg_navbar_mobile_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_navbar_mobile jeg_sticky_nav\" data-mode=\"fixed\">\n<div class=\"jeg_mobile_bottombar jeg_mobile_midbar jeg_container normal\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"jeg_nav_row\">\n<div class=\"jeg_nav_col jeg_nav_center jeg_nav_grow\">\n<div class=\"item_wrap jeg_nav_aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"jeg_nav_item jeg_mobile_logo\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"post-wrap\">\n<div class=\"jeg_main \">\n<div class=\"jeg_container\">\n<div class=\"jeg_content jeg_singlepage\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"jeg_main_content col-md-8\">\n<div class=\"jeg_inner_content\">\n<div class=\"entry-header\">\n<div class=\"jeg_meta_container\">\n<div class=\"jeg_post_meta jeg_post_meta_1\">\n<div class=\"meta_left\">\n<div class=\"jeg_meta_reading_time\">The Minority in Parliament has revealed that medical drone delivery company Zipline is shutting down three of its operational centres due to the government\u2019s indebtedness amounting to GH\u00a2175 million.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content no-share\">\n<div class=\"content-inner \">\n<p>The caucus warned that the move poses a grave danger to public health, as the closures will severely disrupt the delivery of blood, vaccines and other life-saving medical supplies, particularly to hard-to-reach communities that rely heavily on the drone service.<\/p>\n<p>Raising the concern during debate on the 2026 Budget on Tuesday, November 25, the Ranking Member on the Health Committee, Dr Ayew Afriyie, criticised the government for failing to engage the company and honour its financial obligations, despite recognising Zipline\u2019s critical role in the health delivery chain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZipline is decommissioning three of its centres, Centres 4, 5 and 6. There has been no engagement and an inability on the part of the government to provide funds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe allocation for Zipline was only GH\u00a220 million, even though the government currently owes the company GH\u00a2175 million,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minority in Parliament has revealed that medical drone delivery company Zipline is shutting down three of its operational centres due to the government\u2019s indebtedness amounting to GH\u00a2175 million. The caucus warned that the move poses a grave danger to public health, as the closures will severely disrupt the delivery of blood, vaccines and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":14653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,13,18],"tags":[4591,4592,1387],"class_list":["post-14652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-health","category-politics","tag-dr-ayew-afriyie","tag-gh175m-debt","tag-zipline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14654,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14652\/revisions\/14654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}