Once when I was still in High School, I was with a friend at a bakery and we heard a loud bump. It was an old lady who had fell down a flight of stairs and was bleeding in the sidewalk nearby. We jumped from our table since we had had a lot of first response training the previous year and did our thing to help the lady.
The ambulance arrived shortly.
I guess in some other countries with smaller cities things tend to move faster for these kind of situation, but we can't never tell. Sometimes the fact that stuff isn't all integrated in a big system helps a lot and most of time it doesn't.
An overloaded hospital system, lack of beds, doctors and medical staff plus many other issues...That means ambulances can't offload patients they collect into the hospitals which means they have to ramp - line up at emergency to wait for a bed to free up inside, which means they can't attend other emergency calls.
This seems like the description of the only hospital in my city. Add to that the contaminated areas and how people die from infections after surgeries. And when you enter it, it's the living image of a war zone at it's worst times as people flood the hallways and you need to thread carefully amongst the sick and injured.
Yes, I'd say the issues here and in your hospitals there would be found in many countries and I think there'd be a lot of stories of woe from those who have suffered because of it. Maybe there's just too many people on the planet, maybe five billion of them need to die...maybe it'll even happen in the future when humanity fuck things up some more.
I called it, although I'll probably not be around to say, I told you so.
Who knows what will happen? The world is going to sh*t as it is.
I concur.