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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
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Crisnel Longino

Trump-Voting Towns Fear Deadly Delays After Rural Hospitals Close and Emergency Care Moves Farther Away

Residents across rural America are warning that longer ambulance journeys, disappearing maternity units and shrinking healthcare services could put lives at risk as hospitals struggle to survive (Credit: Anna Shvets/Pexels)

A trip to hospital that once took just minutes is becoming a journey measured in miles for many rural Americans, and residents fear the consequences could prove deadly.

Across several Republican strongholds that overwhelmingly backed Donald Trump, hospitals and clinics are closing their doors, leaving communities worried that heart attacks, strokes and childbirth emergencies could become far more dangerous simply because medical help is now much farther away.

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