Why a whole-of-society approach is needed to safeguard EMS workers?
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There have been more than 30 attacks on Emergency Medical Service personnel in the Western Cape alone this year‚ with the latest one proving fatal to a patient. An injured eight-year-old boy died on Wednesday afternoon after an attack on the ambulance he was in.
Emergency Medical Services personnel helped the child‚ who sustained serious head injuries when he was involved in a motor vehicle accident on Tuesday night‚ and rushed him to Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital. They were travelling on the N2 near to Borchards Quarry when the ambulance was attacked.
In recent years attacks on EMS staff have escalated. In some high-risk areas police have to escort ambulances. But it seems there’s no end to these attacks in sight
Tonight we chat to Emergency Medical Services staff, Alderman JP Smith from the City of Cape Town, and Rafique Foflonker from the Mitchells Plain CPF cluster
Emergency Medical Services personnel helped the child‚ who sustained serious head injuries when he was involved in a motor vehicle accident on Tuesday night‚ and rushed him to Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital. They were travelling on the N2 near to Borchards Quarry when the ambulance was attacked.
In recent years attacks on EMS staff have escalated. In some high-risk areas police have to escort ambulances. But it seems there’s no end to these attacks in sight
Tonight we chat to Emergency Medical Services staff, Alderman JP Smith from the City of Cape Town, and Rafique Foflonker from the Mitchells Plain CPF cluster