01 November 2014
The Mitchell’s Plain Community Policing
Forum has raised its concern regarding paramedics or emergency services workers
being attacked while attending to emergencies.
Last year the Western Cape Department of
Health identified Delft, Elsies River, Manenberg, Mitchells Plain, Khayelitsha
and Lavender Hill as high-risk areas for paramedics to attend emergencies.
Mitchell’s Plain Community Policing Forum’s Abie Isaacs said
earlier this week, criminals stripped an ambulance, while paramedics
were attending to an emergency in Eastridge.
Isaacs said it’s reported various medical
equipment was stolen.
Isaacs
added that it was one of at least seven incidents which
have occurred in Mitchell’s Plain this year.
Isaacs said they don’t want this acts of crime
to affect the EMS services in the area.
“At the end of the day we
don’t want to see ourselves as Mitchell’s Plain where EMS services in
particular, do decided not to come to the area because of this incidents Isaac
added.
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