5 Questions for an Ambulance Driver in Mogadishu
Apr 6, 2010
Nur Hassan is an ambulance driver in Mogadishu. Abdinashir Mohamed Guled asks him five questions.
How long have you been an ambulance driver and why do you do it?
"I have been an ambulance driver for only one year. I am committed to helping my people."
Where were you born?
"I was born in 1975 in the central town of Guriel."
How did you learn to be an ambulance driver?
"I became an ambulance driver for the plight of my people, I will die for them."
What's the most beautiful thing you have seen during your job?
"I have never seen something that looked beautiful within this job, but I can say that one day was amazing, I took a young girl who was under a pile of people injured in a restaurant in the Bakaara market when it was shelled. When she was brought to the hospital she was safe and no scratches touched her, only blood from other people covered her. She was physically safe."
If you could talk to an ambulance driver in New York what would you ask him?
"I would ask the ambulance driver in New York how he takes seriously injured patients to the hospital when there are always traffic jams? I would ask if any patients have died on the way to the hospital due to delays on the road? I would ask, have you ever collided with other cars while driving the ambulance and then become injured yourself? Since your life depends on patients, how is your health?"
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