His Pregnant Wife Lay Dying, Waiting for an Ambulance

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) like ambulances and hospitals are in crisis in rural America. EMS is not considered an essential service in the same way that fire and police departments are, and so they don’t receive the same funding. Paramedics and EMTs often make half the salary that nurses do.

Join us as we travel to the Mississippi River Delta to see how EMS crews are coping with a collapsing health care system.

YT Chapters
00:00 - Pregnant And Dying, With No Hospital
03:22 - Paramedics Are Delivering Babies In Ambulances
06:04 - Why Is EMS Not Considered An Essential Service?
07:57 - Why EMS Workers Are Wearing Bulletproof Vests
10:05 - Why Hospitals Are Closing In Rural America
12:07 - What Needs To Change In Mississippi?

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