The Majority Leader, Mahama Ayariga, has called for the termination of the government’s contract with Zipline for drone delivery of essential medicines, arguing that the arrangement has become a waste of state resources.

His remarks follow a request by the Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, for the Health Minister to appear before Parliament next week to brief the House on efforts to restore Zipline’s operations at three centres closed down due to the government’s GH₵175 million debt.

Addressing Parliament, Mahama Ayariga stated that the Ghana Health Service (GHS) is fully capable of acquiring its own drones to deliver critical medical supplies to hard-to-reach communities, eliminating the need for the costly contract