Blessed Gérard's
First Aid and
Emergency Service

Mandeni, kwaZulu/Natal, South Africa

A project of the
Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard

Although the ambulance and other vehicles of Blessed Gérard's Care Centre had been meant to be used just to visit sick people at their respective homes and to transport them occasionally between their home or hospital and Blessed Gérard's Care Centre we have been called by members of the public in many cases of emergencies when the Provincial or private ambulance services were not available. Meanwhile a good cooperation has developed between Provincial EMRS and ourselves sharing resources and mutually helping each other.

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On other occasions it just happened that our ambulance was first on the scene at road traffic accidents.

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We have been asked to render First Aid Services for public events like the Tugela Raft Race, the Mandeni Spring Fair

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or the Diocesan Pilgrimage to Fatima.

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Our equipment comprises a 4x4 ambulance, a First-Aid tent with 12 field beds and First-Aid equipment stored in a trailer town by a 9-seater 4x4 pickup and a mobile First Aid Station (caravan) towed by a 5-seater 4x4 station wagon.