How tricycle ambulances are saving lives in rural Ghana

In rural Ghana, pregnant women often have trouble getting to the hospital to give birth. Roads are narrow, rough and rocky, and it can take hours to go relatively short distances. The World’s Transportation Correspondent Jeremy Siegel reports on how one nonprofit is working to change that with cheap motorized tricycles.

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