Giba Gorge stabbing leaves one dead one critically injured

On Sunday morning Netcare 911 paramedics responded to a call where two men were injured in Giba Gorge, Pinetown.  Exact detail to the cause of the incident and preceding events will form part of the South African Police investigation, and will remain a subject for their comment.

Netcare 911 paramedics their rescue unit and the Police Search and Rescue arrived at the scene and had to hike down a steep slope for about five hundred metres before they got to the first man. After the patient was examined they found that he had sustained a penetrating wound and he tragically died before our arrival.

After the team hiked a further five hundred meters along a path they found another patient lying near a river with a critical penetrating wound. The patient was stabilised at the scene and after the Netcare 911 advanced Life support paramedic placed him on a ventilator, the  Police air wing skilfully airlifted them back to where the ambulance was parked .

The patient was loaded into the ambulance and then transported to a hospital in Chatsworth under the constant care of a Netcare 911 Emergency Care Practitioner for the specialised care that he required.