LISTEN: KZN emergency service introduces air helicopter ambulance
The newly launched Bell 222 - emergency service, Netcare911's air ambulance - will improve response time - reaching critically injured patients in rural, and areas otherwise not easily accessible.
The twin-engine helicopter will join a fleet of air rescue aircrafts in KwaZulu-Natal such as IPSS' Black Eagle Aviation, which landed in KwaDukuza for its maiden flight at the end of last year, and KZN EMRS' Air Mercy.
The chopper - operated by a pilot and air ambulance medics - will attend to trauma cases involving burn victims, accident victims with serious head injuries, or those with severe penetrating wounds - to name a few.
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Netcare 911's Shawn Herbst says the Bell 222 will be dispatched from the Virginia Airport base, north of Durban, to various parts of the province.
The emergency team attended to their first case, this morning on the M25 under the N2 bridge, north of the city. A man sustained critical injuries in a crash involving a mini-bus taxi.
