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Original Post Date: 2004-02-19 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 2/19/2004 6:27:23 AM
S.Africa: Working for emergency services is dangerous
Emergency service workers have been given an undertaking by the department of health to provide them with police escorts to dangerous areas, installing tracking devices in the vehicles and sending staff to anti-hijacking courses.
This was confirmed on Wednesday by the Superintendent-General of the health department, Ronald Green-Thompson, who was responding to the demands of emergency service workers after a male and female paramedic were hijacked early on Tuesday in Imbali, Pietermaritzburg, after receiving a hoax call. The paramedics were forced to have sex with each other, and the woman was then raped before the criminals fled in their ambulance.
The Director of Communications for the health department, Lindiwe Khuzwayo, said both victims were still traumatised, but that they had been discharged from hospital.
Green-Thompson urged communities to join community policing forums to protect emergency service staff.
‘This was not an isolated incident’
Emergency staff gathered in protest on Wednesday outside the Durban City Hall to highlight the fact that paramedics were increasingly coming under attack. They demanded safer working conditions.
Nokuthula Ngubo, from the Umlazi emergency base, said working for emergency services had become a difficult job for female employees.
She said that women were unable to go out on a job alone because of crime. “It is not safe as we suffer all kinds of abuse, including rape,” she said.
Paramedic Raveen Gunpath, who has survived an attempted hijacking, said working for emergency services was a traumatising experience.
The paramedics demanded that the government put tracking devices in cars, provide a tracking computer system when vehicles go to volatile places and provide police escorts.
‘It is not safe as we suffer all kinds of abuse’
Paramedic Malcom Pillay from the eThekwini emergency base said that their female colleagues sometimes travelled alone at night.
“When in isolated areas it is difficult to alert your colleagues when something is wrong. Having tracking devices will provide us with a sense of security,” he said.
The paramedics urged the public to support them by exposing the criminals. Gunpath added that in most cases the communities knew the hijackers.
The National Secretary of the National Public Service Workers’ Union, Sanjay Balkaran, said: “We would like to state that this was not an isolated incident as there have been regular incidents of hijacking, assault and attempted murder.
We only hope that this type of action will come to an end soon before any employee is killed.”
This article was originally published on page 3 of The Mercury on February 19, 2004
Source: IOL
URL: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=13&ar…br>