Cape Town – Nurse Mercia Patterson was at work at Melomed Mitchells Plain Hospital on Thursday when a shot school pupil was rushed in for treatment.
The lad was her son Jayden, 19.
He was one of two pupils from Oval North High School in Beacon Valley shot outside the school on Thursday.
Jayden was shot in the arm and hip while his friend Michael Davids, 20, was shot in the leg.
Both were in a critical but stable condition in hospital on Thursday night.
Patterson was being treated at Melomed Mitchells Plain Hospital and Davids was sent to Groote Schuur Hospital.
Melomed Mitchells Plain Hospital manager Nickie Crookes said the bullet was lodged in Patterson’s hip.
He was being prepared for surgery late on Thursday afternoon…
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