“It is as if you were not given a chance to do everything in your capacity to help.” Nigeria
This photo taken on July 18, 2019 shows first responders loading a patient into their ambulance at a bus station near Manila. – Gridlock in Manila is costing lives as ambulances stuck in traffic face severe delays in the race against the clock to reach the city’s hospitals, medics warn. / TO GO WITH AFP STORY PHILIPPINES-HEALTH-TRAFFIC-AMBULANCE,FEATURE BY CECIL MORELLA
“If the traffic was not that bad it could have saved the patient,” he added, recalling how he lost a patient when congestion tripled the time to the hospital. At peak hours, the main arteries of Manila are clogged with idling cars — a 25-kilometre end to end drive through the main highway can take as long as three hours.
“When you’re trying to save a person’s life, that is very slow,” he said, still upset by the 2017 incident. The trip took hours when it should have taken minutes. Zamora’s mother, who suffered a stroke, survived the trip to the hospital but died there a week later.Officials like Aldo Mayor, public safety chief of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority , put at least part of the blame on other road users.
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