In Mega-city Lagos, 20 Million Count On Just 100 Ambulances

With Lagos sitting on a massive lagoon, a floating clinic and ambulance service helps communities at the water's edge -- but funds to expand are lacking (Credit: AFP)

Standing outside a public hospital in Lagos, Nigeria's biggest city, Michelin Hunsa is still "traumatised" from the two-hour wait it took to get an ambulance for her mother, found unconscious by her neighbours.

Such waits can be deadly and are not unusual in the mega-city, where notorious traffic jams snarl commutes and only about 100 ambulances serve a population of more than 20 million.