This post is not for sensitive souls. A young cousin of wife E took ill one evening this week, with a heart ailment, which had her vomiting. While the hospital was just 1½ km away, she was too ill to get there. The family called the hospital. The hospital said that they didn't have an ambulance, but they were dispatching one from a town 50 km away. Hour after hour, the family waited for the ambulance -- which ultimately didn't turn up. By the morning, E's cousin was a little better, and the family got her to the hospital, where they put her on a drip. OBSERVATION: This kind of situation is not unusual. Here's a news item about a king -- in fact a distant relative of wife E -- who couldn't get an ambulance: Death of a Xhosa King.
POSTSCRIPT: The situation with ambulances is very bad -- particularly in more distant places, i.e. distant from cities. I would guess that most people are unaware of the seriousness of the situation. I am in the privileged position of living in two worlds.
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