Bicycle ambulance
Bicycle ambulance
Typical. You buy someone a bike and then they give it away to a community in rural Malawi. Rest assured, it’s for a great cause, because this humble bike saves thousands of lives every year.
In Malawi, communities can be 30km from the nearest health centre. Families have to carry sick patients on a bicycle or a wheelbarrow all the way to the hospital, which is both dangerous and slow. Your gift of a bicycle ambulance for the Blantyre District Health Office will safely transport expectant mothers and chronically ill patients to the nearest health centre.
“The bicycle ambulance is helping us a lot, especially when it comes to pregnant women.
Before we received this bicycle ambulance, some pregnant women delivered on the way to the hospital, and such a thing is dangerous as complications can arise.” Grace Lihembe, Community-Based Child Care Centre Chairperson, Malawi.
