With reports that some hospitals are overburdened,Briefly.co.zainvestigates the middleman: the South African Ambulance Services.
Raveen Naidoois the Head of South African Emergency Services and is optimistic about theemergency medical regulationsdue to be instated.
He speaks of including standardisation:
Read on for more information regarding the public andprivate emergency responsesectors.
Paramedics assisting the injured after a building collapsed at Noor Chambers in Durban, 2020. Photo: GettyImagesSource: Getty Images
The National Health Actgoverns the dispatch of trained and registered paramedics to provide emergency medical help.
Each ambulance has two paramedics on board and is stocked with life-saving medical equipment and medications.
Over fifty highly skilled volunteers, including physicians and paramedics, make up their team.
A crew of a private ambulance service in Port Elizabeth wear personal protective equipment, 2020. Photo: GettyImagesSource: Getty Images
Community Medics are available 24 hours, with an average response time of eight minutes.
Hopefully, they can extend their range past Cape Town and assist at a national level one day.
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The results have been catastrophic and mid-pandemic; the timing could not be worse.
By July, only 40 ambulances were operational in the whole of Gauteng.
Ambulances have to queue for COVID 19 testing before patients are triaged and admitted. Photo: GettyImagesSource: Getty Images
The new provincial ambulance system has resulted in more unnecessary fatalities.
Unfortunately, if one does not have medical aid, this may not even be an option.
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