ER24 and the Life LSU were called to Cape Town Harbour for a female patient that had fallen approximately five metres in a ships hull.
When paramedics arrived on the scene they assessed the patient and found that the patient was in a stable condition, but due to the mechanism of injury and the patients chief complaints, they would need the assistance of rescue services to get the patient from where she landed to the deck of the ship.
Metro Rescue was called to bring the necessary equipment and perform the rescue. They loaded the patient into a stokes basket and lifted the basket with ropes via a pulley system. Once the lady was on the deck an on-site crane was used to move the patient from the ship to the waiting ER24 ambulance.
The fifty five-year-old lady was transported to Life Vincent Pallotti Hospital for the further medical care of moderate injuries.
Tristan Wadeley
ER24
[Photos by: Liesel Grantham]
