Many residents in the North West are often left in limbo as the province continues to face a dire shortage of ambulances.
The provincial government through the Thuntsha Lerole campaign, has moved to procure 85 vehicles.
These include 36 ambulances, 39 planned patient transport vehicles and 10 forensic pathology vehicles at a cost of R76 million.
Even with the new vehicles, the province will still fail to meet the required ratio of one ambulance per 10 000 people.
Residents say ambulances are not reliable and they have to make other plans to get to hospitals.
