An SA team of medical and emergency workers has been recognised by the UN
Flooded homes after Cyclone Idai in Buzi district outside Beira, Mozambique, March 21 2019. Picture: REUTERS/SIPHIWE SIBEKO
The team includes Rescue SA members Ian Scher‚ Travis Trower and Klaas Prinsloo; Connor Hartnady‚ Abrie Senekal and Gerhard Louw from the University of Johannesburg; SAPS search and rescue team members Francois Pretorius and Romel de Rosa; IPSS medics Paul Herbst‚ Dylan Meyrick‚ Shane Rode‚ Armand Herbst and Daniel Lobjoit; ER24’s Marcel Nordin and Brian Allchin; Ceron Meadows from Rescue Care; Bradley Hatfield from Ethekini Fire and Emergency Services; and Keanan Reynolds from the Durban...
“It was devastating to see that many people starving out there for 36 hours; having to make that decision of who to take and who to leave is always a difficult one‚” said Reynolds.
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