On Sunday morning Netcare 911 paramedics responded to a call where two men were injured in Giba Gorge, Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal. Exact detail to the cause of the incident and preceding events will form part of the South African Police investigation, and will remain a subject for their comment.
Netcare 911 paramedics their rescue unit and the Police Search and Rescue arrived at the scene and had to hike down a steep slope for about five hundred metres before they got to the first man. After the patient was examined they found that he had sustained a penetrating wound and he tragically died before paramedics arrived.
After the team hiked a further five hundred meters along a path they found another patient lying near a river with a critical penetrating wound. The patient was stabilised at the scene and after the Netcare 911 advanced Life support paramedic placed him on a ventilator, the Police air wing skilfully airlifted them back to where the ambulance was parked .
The patient was loaded into the ambulance and then transported to a hospital in Chatsworth under the constant care of a Netcare 911 Emergency Care Practitioner for the specialised care that he required.
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