Dottorot'ta: Dial a Doctor

On a Saturday evening in early January, the doctor and the nurse on duty at the Kassi-Kassi Community Clinic in Rappocini, Makassar, were alerted by a phone call. Both hurried to a small car parked at the clinic's premises. With blaring sirens, the green car waded through the congested Jalan Tamalate, toward the caller's address.

After traveling around 500 meters, they stopped in front of a house on Jalan Setapak 4, where Musnawati, the house owner, was already waiting. "My mother complained of chest pains," she told the doctor, who immediately walked into the room while the nurse unloaded an electrocardiogram machine from the car.

January 31, 2017