Ambulance to Mongolia
UPDATE: We have completed the rally and are now helping more teams to take ambulances. More info here: http://mongolia.charityrallies.org/en/Ambulances
Mongolia is a vast country, about the size of Western Europe, yet Western Europe has a population of around 500 million people and Mongolia has a population just under 3 million. So how does a country so vast provide adequate medical care to its people? The short answer is, with difficulty. The level of primary care is extremely basic with hospitals being short of equipment and medicines. Ambulances are few and extremely far between and in most cases are old Russian military vehicles ill equipped for saving lives.
Our aim is to deliver a dual purpose vehicle that can be used as an ambulance and also as a mobile clinic that can be used for vaccinations and screenings in rural areas where most people do not have direct access to medical care. Many Mongolians that fall ill will often have to make a journey that lasts for days to get to a hospital or even a doctor. Our vehicle will travel the rural communities providing care where care is currently unavailable. The vehicle we are taking is a Fiat Ducato ambulance that has just left NHS service. It will be fully equipped to modern standards and capable of meeting 21st century medical needs.
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Thanks and kudos to AQL for the SMS to email service that made this possible!
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| 44 weeks 6 days ago | Anyway,
we are in Ulaanbaatar!!
AmbulancetoMongolia has been a resounding success meeting all its aims and have successfully delivered a fully operation Ambulance to Mongolia. We will put some pictures up when we find a faster internet connection, it is painfully slow everywhere we have been.
So what has happened sine day 16? | 2 | |
| 45 weeks 5 days ago | Message from the team - they're into Mongolia and on the way to UB! (Added by Admin) | 0 | |
| 45 weeks 6 days ago | Finally the taxi has broken down. 150km from mongol border. Some locals are looking but im not holding out too much hope. | 0 | |
| 46 weeks 2 days ago | hello spectators, we have just arrived in Irktusk, Russia. Staying in a hostel tonight, its pretty smelly but the fellow hostel goers are all fairly pleasant. had a few mechanical issues with the ambulance yesterday but they have largely been resolved. headed for lake baikal tomorrow wgere we plan to have a day off to mess about and hopefully get to the border by monday and possibly even UB by monday night depending on road quality. | 0 | |
| 46 weeks 3 days ago | Broke down again today. Local did a temp fix. We think its the fuel solenoid. Can start engine with key but have to stop it by disconnecting a wire. | 0 | |
| 47 weeks 1 day ago | Finally in russia after a 10 hour border crossing. In siberia officially now. Looking forward to the next few days filled with trees and bandits. | 0 | |
| 47 weeks 1 day ago | Stuck trying to get out of kazakh. We were supposed to register our visas. We did not. Have to pay 100 dollars each. First legit fine we have had to pay. Might be here a while as we have to pay at a bank in kaz then come back to the border. Waiting for them to do the paperwork. | 0 | |
| 47 weeks 3 days ago | Stayed in Astana last night. Amazing place with ridiculous buildings. Headed for the russian border now. Hopefully get most of the way there today. | 0 | |
| 47 weeks 4 days ago | Cant call anymore. Dont know why. Locals are amazing, everyone is goin out of their way to help us. We are 500km east of le capital. Big problem with suspension. Fixed by slav. Job done. Miss everyone x x x | 0 | |
| 47 weeks 4 days ago | Ambulance is fixed. All is good! Mechanic made as lunch. X | 0 |
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