Location Of An Air Ambulance Response Unit In The Brong Ahafo Region Of Ghana Using The Planar K-Centra Single-Facility Euclidean Location Algorithm

The Planar k-Centra Single-Facility Euclidean Location Algorithm was used to strategically locate an Air Ambulance Response Facility in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana which will be closest to the k-6 farthest districts. Sixteen (16) rectangular co-ordinates were generated for 16 district capitals as the inputs for the algorithm. Matlab codes were written and used to run the algorithm. The algorithm generated (397.3km, 929.2km) as the plane Cartesian rectangular coordinate of the optimal point with 273.8km as its objective function value which is given by sum of the distances of 6 farthest locations away from the optimal location.  The proposed community for the Air Ambulance Response Facility was found to coincide with Tadieso, a village which is about nine (9) kilometres away from Techiman in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana.