Taking local traffic patterns into account, rural Americans have an average travel time of 17 minutes to the nearest hospital, while those in suburban and urban communities have an average travel time of 12 minutes and 10 minutes, respectively.
In Africa, nearly 50% of the population have more than 2 hours to travel to the nearest hospital, with 28% of those being more than 24 hours of travel to reach such a hospital!
With that fact – Obstetric crises are common! One FAME global partner is a CMF (Christian Missionary Fellowship) Clinic which has served expectant mothers for many years. A focus of this clinic has been HIV+ mothers – with wonderful results of 98% success in no transfer of HIV to the babies!
But this wonderful clinic has had to halt all services except prenatal care. The Ivory Coast Government is requiring them to have an Ambulance for emergency situations before they are allowed to continue with maternity services that include the delivery of babies!
This Ambulance is one of the 11 sustainable projects for which Bill Warren is running on Saturday, November 7th in the Monumental Half-Marathon.