A photograph titled “An ambulance transports sacks of onions through Samarkand” has been widely circulated on social networks.
According to the official statement from the Republican Center for Emergency Medical Care, the car does not belong to the ambulance service, but to one of the private clinics operating in the city of Samarkand.
According to the clinic's representatives, the commercial vehicle belonging to this business entity broke down on the road, as a result of which they had to use the vehicle shown in the photo to deliver the cargo to its destination.
But isn't the main task of ambulances to transport the sick? How can you deliver a patient who can barely breathe in a car that smells of onions to the hospital? Doesn't the Republican Center for Emergency Medical Care know that the interior of such vehicles should be sterile?
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