NIGERIA | The three-wheeled urban ambulances saving lives
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Channel: Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism
Around the world, three wheelers offer a cheap means of urban transport. In Gwoza, a town in north-east Nigeria, these small three-wheeled vehicles, known locally as keke napeps, are more than just a means of public transport, they are a means of saving lives. Every month around 260 patients are transported to the hospital in keke napeps, which are used by MSF as makeshift ambulances to avoid movement restrictions in a town controlled by the Nigerian army following years of conflict. In Gwoza, MSF provides emergency consultations, nutritional and inpatient care, and sexual reproductive health services. MSF continues to provide healthcare services in 12 other locations across Borno and Yobe state. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare. SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/15M9M8v Help us caption & translate this video! https://amara.org/v/dzWL/
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