South Africa: Emergency Medical Services Leave Patients Stranded

Women in Mpumalanga are teaching themselves to deliver babies because there is such a dire shortage of ambulances, which take up to six hours to respond to calls.

The province's Gert Sibande District, a pilot site for the National Health Insurance scheme, has only 38 ambulances to serve almost a million residents, according to documents in Health-e News' possession.

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