Cape medics hit hard by PTSD due to repeated ambulance attacks | Cape Argus

Cape Town - Work-related cases of post traumatic stress disorder since January 2016 have resulted in 103 staff from the province’s emergency medical services putting in claims to the compensation fund. Dr Shaheem de Vries, the director of emergency medical services at the provincial Health Department, said this number of people being unable to work was the equivalent of 11 ambulances being off the road.

Explaining the impact of this absenteeism on the ambulance service or the EMS, De Vries said that of the 103 PTSD sufferers, there were 23 staff of whom 16 had been unable to return to work, and that seven of those diagnosed with PTSD were back on duty but doing different work. “How this works out is that there are two people per vehicle working in 12-hour shifts. This translates to four people to keep one ambulance on the road for 24 hours.

“Meanwhile, all eight people need to take a month’s annual leave, and each needs a person to stand in for them when they take leave, or are absent for some reason or out of the office on training - a regular occurrence,” said De Vries

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