Patients die as Manila traffic jams block ambulances

MANILA - Gridlock in Manila is costing lives as ambulances stuck in traffic face severe delays in the race against the clock to reach the city's hospitals, medics warn.

Even with an encyclopedic knowledge of short cuts or aggressive driving such as blasting their horns or bumping unyielding vehicles, it is not always enough to arrive in time. Home to some 13 million, there is nearly one vehicle registered per person. The resulting gridlock costs the city $67 million daily in lost productivity, according to a 2017 Japanese government-funded study.Neither the government nor ambulance companies keep count of how many patients die in traffic each year, officials said, but emergency medical workers in the city have many horror stories.

Images of ambulances stalled in unmoving traffic jams have sparked outrage on social media in the Philippines. "Some people simply do not care. It is as if they are the only residents of this world," said Mayor, whose government agency manages the capital's chaotic traffic.

Kasi Ang Bagal Mong Magmaniho Kaya Namatay Pasenti Mo!

GISING PILIPINAS!!!

Patients die,houses burn down,criminals escape and ordinary citizens go crazy..and is it going to change in the next 3 years? Even with 'emergency powers' nahhhhhhhh

😢

It’s time for EMS law

Perhaps traffic cops can travel with a couple of ambulances for a while and give tickets to drivers making insufficient effkrt to move out of the way, that will soon stop it

Traffic, traffic what have you done?

Bkt naman dyan pa dinaan alam naman siguro ng driver na parking lot ang edsa pag rush hr!

Emergency Power!

And anyone who lives in Manila finds this surprising? I’m sure it happens daily.

Filipino attitude, 'not my problem why should i give way?'

yan lang ang nakita nyo? eh andami ng namatay dyan sa inis!!!

IanEsguerra “3 to 6 months.” 😏

What now Sen. Poe? Want to have another non-sense statement and try hard to earn poegi point?

One thing that has improved is that I more frequently see vehicles give way to emergency vehicles now. The cases cited in the article are isolated outliers, IMO.

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