allAfrica.com: "The death of three-year-old Jonald Awarab on Wednesday could have been averted if an ambulance they had been waiting for since 08h00 had arrived sooner than 15h00, claimed Brand.
The boy injured his arm on Tuesday when he fell while playing on an old car wreck.
He was discharged the same day from the Uis clinic, where he was treated.
Complications apparently set in and when Awarab was taken back to the clinic the next morning, he was in a coma.
An ambulance was called to take the boy to the hospital at Omaruru, but only arrived at 15h00, half an hour after the child had died.
According to Brand, the explanation for the delay given by Dr F Chulu, the Acting Principal Medical Officer in the Omaruru health district, was that one of the region's two roadworthy ambulances was at Swakopmund for a routine service and the other vehicle had taken a number of patients from Usakos to see a specialist in Windhoek."
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