Major analytic themes
| Characterisation of the existing healthcare referral network | Missed or delayed diagnoses |
| Limited management capacity at peripheral facilities | |
| Interfacility transfer delays | |
| Barriers to EMS care implementation | Patients’ financial limitations |
| Limitations of public infrastructural resources | |
| Credibility of potential first aid responders | |
| Facilitators to EMS care access | Communal pooling of resources |
| Intercommunity trust for first aid responsibility |
EMS, emergency medical systems.