The festive season’s first long weekend was extraordinarily busy for Western Cape emergency workers, with ambulance staff responding to more than 6,000 cases in just four days.
It called on motorists to travel slowly when approaching pedestrians and for the latter to wear visible clothing. “The fewer incidents on our roads, the more quickly our response agencies can attend to other emergencies.”
EMS paramedics responded to 187 road traffic-related incidents — 92 in the Cape metro, 35 in the Cape winelands, 27 on the Garden Route, 16 in the Overberg, 12 on the West Coast and five in the Central Karoo. From midnight on Thursday to 8.30am on Monday, 3,661 trauma patients presented at 43 emergency centres linked to the provincial health department’s hospital emergency centre triage and information system . Not all emergencies are linked to this.
Most trauma cases were within the Cape metro at facilities such as the Delft community health centre , Kraaifontein CHC , Khayelitsha Hospital , Tygerberg Hospital , Mitchells Plain Hospital , Gugulethu CHC and Paarl Hospital .
“Our colleagues in the mobility department have done several road-safety awareness campaigns for the festive season and will also have significant law-enforcement officers on important routes to ensure road users obey the rules.”
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