Most Vietnamese don't know the emergency number, or how to help someone dying

A World Bank paper finds that most people in Vietnam do not know the emergency call number. This means injured people often do not get first aid, and ambulances are rarely called.

Emergency care systems rely on people knowing how to call for help and what to do before help arrives. This paper shows that in Vietnam, neither of those things is happening for most people. It means many preventable deaths and disabilities are likely occurring because the basic chain of survival is broken.