Approximately 30km North of Vrede on the N3, the three SA Military Health Service members from the Area Military Health Unit KwaZulu-Natal Emergency Military Medical Care (EMMC) Section were on route to Pretoria transferring a patient. The Medics came across a collision involving two trucks.

In the true nature of medics, Sergeant Boitumelo Baakeleng (Operational Emergency Care Practitioner), Corporal Zwelethu Ngema (Advanced Life Support Paramedic) and Private Thembeka Langa (Immediate Life Support) stopped to immediately provide emergency medical care and found two male patients with life-threatening injuries.

Corporal Ngema, employed his medical rescue skills to assist an entrapped patient who was found to have sustained a head injury and multiple soft tissue injuries. The second patient sustained a fracture. The patients were stabilised and handed over to Government Emergency Medical Care for further medical attention and transportation.

Colonel Mathe Lesenyeho, Director Emergency Military Medical Care congratulated these “selfless military pre-hospital caregivers” and applauded their instincts to save lives.

Information and Photographs supplied by Corporal Ngema || The photographs were taken by a bystander and sent via airdrop to the SA Military Health Service members.