PHOTO: RASHED SHUMON

A driver places a spare tyre back inside a converted ambulance after it broke down in the capital’s Palashi area yesterday while carrying an injured woman from the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation to Cumilla. The exposed tyre, gas cylinders placed beneath the patient’s stretcher, and absence of standard medical equipment show the risks patients face during inter-district transfers in unregulated ambulances.