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TimesLIVE reports that according to private ambulance service Emer-G-Med, one of its employees was involved in a "vicious attack" by a worker from another ambulance service on Monday afternoon.
The incident occurred on the R55 in Midrand after two ambulance providers were summoned to a scene of an accident involving several vehicles. “While one of our intermediate life-support members was actively treating a patient, he was viciously assaulted by what appears to have been an ambulance driver of a small ambulance service. Our advanced life-support paramedic intervened, removed our ILS member out of harm's way and continued rendering emergency care to injured patients," Emer-G-Med reported. The injured medic was taken to hospital after the "unprovoked" attack and treated for facial lacerations and a ruptured eardrum. He is also undergoing trauma counselling. Emer-G-Med rejected a claim that its employee had stabbed the ambulance worker. A case of assault has been opened with the police.
- Read the full original of Nonkululeko Njilo’s report on the above story at TimesLIVE
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