- RIYADH: Bank officials and customers were perplexed when an ambulance with sirens blaring and lights flashing rushed to the parking lot of a local bank.
Nurses then disembarked along with a man in a stretcher; the entire group then entered the bank. Onlookers were left confused and thought paramedics had mistaken the hospital for a bank.
This was, it later transpired, not the case. The man had fallen extremely ill, but the hospital had refused him treatment without advance payment. The man then requested the hospital staff to take him to the bank to withdraw money and pay for his treatment, Shams newspaper reported.