{"id":184124,"date":"2024-11-07T18:29:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T16:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-tsumkwes-medical-emergency-ambulance-shortage-puts-lives-at-risk\/"},"modified":"2024-11-07T18:29:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T16:29:22","slug":"namibia-tsumkwes-medical-emergency-ambulance-shortage-puts-lives-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-tsumkwes-medical-emergency-ambulance-shortage-puts-lives-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Tsumkwe&#8217;s Medical Emergency &#8230; Ambulance Shortage Puts Lives At Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">!am Di \u2014 Residents of !AM Di, a remote village in the Tsumkwe constituency of the Otjozondjupa region, face a healthcare dilemma due to an acute shortage of ambulances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The lack of a reliable transport system to health centres has forced families into heart-wrenching situations, sometimes transporting sick relatives and family members themselves, or tragically retrieving the bodies of deceased family members from distant roadsides after they succumb to illnesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">During a recent visit to the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411070466.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>!am Di \u2014 Residents of !AM Di, a remote village in the Tsumkwe constituency of the Otjozondjupa region, face a healthcare dilemma due to an acute shortage of ambulances. The lack of a reliable transport system to health centres has forced families into heart-wrenching situations, sometimes transporting sick relatives and family members themselves, or tragically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":184125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,21744,6990,8485,7417,4706,724,257,9229,9590,9467,254,49915],"class_list":["post-184124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ambulance","tag-emergency","tag-lives","tag-medical","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-puts","tag-risk","tag-shortage","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tsumkwes"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}