A woman rescued at the base of a waterfall
Mluleki Mrwebi
12 January 2013
A technical rescue in theUmkomaas Valley
It is alleged that the forty three year old female and family hiked to the base of the Shelter falls when she slipped and injured herself.
Netcare 911 Spokesperson Chris Botha said when paramedics arrived at the scene and had to hike about a kilometer down a trail with their equipment to get to the patient. Police search and rescue was called to the scene to assist paramedics to get the patient back up the steep trail.
A technical rescue in the
It is alleged that the forty three year old female and family hiked to the base of the Shelter falls when she slipped and injured herself.
Netcare 911 Spokesperson Chris Botha said when paramedics arrived at the scene and had to hike about a kilometer down a trail with their equipment to get to the patient. Police search and rescue was called to the scene to assist paramedics to get the patient back up the steep trail.
Botha said after the patient was
stabilised and skillfully secured in a stokes rescue stretcher, rescuers hiked
back up the mountain to where the ambulance was parked. Once at the top she was
loaded into an ambulance and then transported to a hospital in Pietermaritzburg
under the constant care of an advanced life support paramedic.
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