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Cape Argus reports that paramedics in the Western Cape are increasingly coming under attack when responding to emergencies, with many saying they fear for their lives.
Two employees of the Melomed hospital chain’s ambulance service were attacked in Athlone on Friday night. Melomed ambulance manager, Salaama Joseph, said: “We are now planning to have a meeting with the Department of Health and Department of Safety, we need to get a way forward on these incidents, because it is getting out of hand now. It seems like we are targeted everywhere… We usually have a female and a male to work a day shift and a night shift, but after so many incident we changed our roster, most of the males are working night shifts because we know females are not safe out there.” EMS spokesperson, Robert Daniels, said there were about 46 crime related incidents involving ambulances and paramedics between January and August last year.
- Read this report by Sandisiwe Ntlemeza in full at Cape Argus
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