An ambulance assistant was left temporarily blinded after he was sprayed with a liquid during an ambulance robbery in Ntuzuma E section, north of Durban, in the early hours of Monday, reports The Times. Netcare 911 MD Craig Grindell confirmed the incident took place while paramedics were attending to a patient.
“As Netcare 911 emergency medical services practitioners were loading the patient into the ambulance, they were approached by two people who demanded they hand over their possessions, and then fled the scene,” Grindell said. Grindell said the two knife-wielding men sprayed a substance, believed to be petrol or brake fluid, into the eyes of one of the paramedics before they fled.
“Another Netcare 911 response vehicle rushed to the scene, and both the patient and the ambulance crew members were transported to the hospital for further treatment,” Grindell is quoted in the report as saying.
[link url="https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2020-01-06-paramedic-left-temporarily-blinded-in-kzn-ambulance-robbery/"]The Times report[/link]