Lack of ambulances in the province and insufficient emergency medical personnel It was noted that the province is highly under-capacitated in terms of its number of ambulances. At present, the ambulances are not stationed at the individual hospitals, but at a central facility that allows it to service an area often spanning 100kms. This is further compounded by vast distances between clinics to referring district and provincial hospitals. Normal deliveries are attended to at the local clinics but should there be complications in the delivery or with the foetus, these cases are referred to the district and provincial hospitals which are able to provide a higher level of intensive care. Furthermore, the existing ambulances are not stocked with incubators or oxygen, which is further exacerbated by the fact that there are insufficient medical personnel in the ambulances that can maintain a stabilized patient en-route to the nearest district or provincial hospital.