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In Mega-city Lagos, 20 Million Count On Just 100 Ambulances

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With Lagos sitting on a massive lagoon, a floating clinic and ambulance service helps communities at the water's edge -- but funds to expand are lacking AFP Standing outside a public hospital in Lagos, Nigeria's biggest city, Michelin Hunsa is still "traumatised" from the two-hour wait it took to get an ambulance for her mother, found unconscious by her neighbours. Such waits can be deadly and are not unusual in the mega-city, where notorious traffic jams snarl commutes and only about 100 ambulances serve a population of more than 20 million. "It's a serious problem, we waited far too long," Hunsa, 25, told AFP.

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