Don't rob us, plead Port Elizabeth ambulance drivers

He said workers had stopped attending to patients at their homes unless they were escorted by the police. “We go to townships with police escorts because criminals have robbed us, even in the house while treating patients,“ he added.

But Motherwell cluster commander Maj-Gen Dawie Rabie said it was not the responsibility of police to escort ambulances. “If we have to escort every other organisation or company experiencing problems, our core functions of policing will be defeated.”Police spokesperson Col Priscilla Naidu said no one had been arrested for robbing ambulances.

Another ambulance driver said community members were afraid to point out criminals to police. “One of our team was robbed last month while attending to a patient at a house in Soweto-on-Sea. The woman who lives there admitted knowing the criminals, but she was afraid to point them out to police. This makes our job very dangerous.”

He said an ambulance transporting a patient to Dora Nginza hospital had been robbed at gunpoint at a robot. The crew and the patient had been robbed of all their valuables. The spokesperson for health MEC Sindiswa Gomba, Judy Ngoloyi, said a high-level meeting involving the MEC would be held in Port Elizabeth this week to address the issue of security of ambulance personnel.

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