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'No crisis in emergency ambulance service'

Not all the 95000 "unanswered" calls to Gauteng emergency ambulance services had been for medical emergencies and they were not ignored, the provincial Health Department's Vusi Sibiya said yesterday.

Not all the 95000 "unanswered" calls to Gauteng emergency ambulance services had been for medical emergencies and they were not ignored, the provincial Health Department's Vusi Sibiya said yesterday.

The DA said a due diligence report revealed that 765000 calls were received by the ambulance service, but only 670000 had been attended to. - Sapa

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