pital, otherwise they risk dying at home. When an ambulance is summoned, it takes about four hours to arrive that is if it comes at all.
Also, because of the shortage, when an ambulance picks up a patient it rarely drives straight to hospital, but has to pick several other patients in different areas before proceeding to hospital.
The extravagance-loving chairperson of the illegal commission running Harare, Sekesai Makwavarara, has attributed this state of affairs to the breakdown of most of the city’s ambulances and the fact that the city has no money to buy more ambulances since the majority of patients ferried do not pay their bills.
She says the city was currently owed millions of dollars in unpaid ambulance as well as hospital bills.
15.2.2007
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Critical ambulance shortage-(15-02-07)
HARARE - Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, with a population of about 2,5 million, has been hit by a critical shortage of ambulances, with the entire city currently being served by only eight ambulances.
So serious is the shortage that the sick or injured have to find their own means of getting to hos
So serious is the shortage that the sick or injured have to find their own means of getting to hos