VIDEO: One paramedic stabs another
Police are investigating a case of assault after a paramedic working on an accident scene allegedly stabbed a fellow paramedic from a different company.
The incident took place on the R55 towards Tamboti Road in Midrand, north of Johannesburg, on Monday evening, at the site of a taxi collision.
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A paramedic stabbed a colleague from another company at an accident scene on the R55 earlier today. The men argued. pic.twitter.com/w2ISn9nY1v
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Police spokesperson, Granville Meyer, says two paramedics were busy attending to patients when a paramedic from a different company arrived on the scene, and the altercation ensued.
"Afterwards the guys stabbed each other, and a case of assault has been opened," says Meyer.
Meyer adds no arrests have been made, but police investigations are ongoing.
Thee Johannesburg Emergency Management Services [EMS] has condemned the incident and have called for more stringent regulations to monitor the industry.
EMS' spokesperson, Robert Mulaudzi, says the altercation puts the reputation of paramedics in a bad light.
"What I am worried about is the portrayal of emergency services acting like hooligans, thugs - People who walk around with knives," says Mulaudzi.