38 39 The frequency of ambulance use is low; in addition to poor availability, in most cases, ambulances function only as a taxi, as very few have either trained attendants or necessary equipment.
Familiarising people with how the ambulance service functions could encourage them to have more reasonable expectations and, perhaps, to make more appropriate use of emergency services.
The staff said that ambulances were functioning in accordance with the plan until about 6 00 am, when an alleged call from the Ministry of Interior ordered all but two ambulances to head back to the SMC.
At least 60 per cent of Syria's hospitals have been destroyed or damaged and less than a third of public ambulances still function.
(Alexei Cherepanov, a 19-year-old top draft pick of the New York Rangers, died of acute heart failure, on the bench, during a game, in an arena that didn't have an ambulance or even a functioning defibrillator, for example).
Moreover, the ambulance is not currently functioning'.
Only three hospitals had a functioning designated ambulance.
The district has one or two functioning ambulances, but since money for fuel is short, they are rarely used.
A similar situation was seen in neighbouring Niger where, because of failures in the national caesarean subsidy policy, local actors instituted a local taxation system that allowed ambulances to continue functioning.
Depending on their function, ambulances can be classified into either non-patient care ones (that can only take a patient on a stretcher) or patient care ones (that can take qualified medical personnel on board).
