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The Mfezi is an armoured ambulance used by the South African Military Health Service.The name Mfezi is a Zulu word that means cobra. The snake is the emblem of the South African Operational Medical Orderly who operate and use these vehicles, therefore armoured ambulances are named for snakes in South African military service.
St John Brigade is the volunteer wing of the Priory for South Africa, of the wider international Order of St. John, dedicated to teaching first aid and home based care and the practice of these disciplines in communities across the country.
Emergency ambulance service is provided by each South African province. The government-operated ambulance system, also known in the Western Cape as METRO (Medical Emergency Transportation and Rescue Operations) provides emergency medical care as well as various rescue options (land, air and sea) to the public. [1]
The SA Red Cross Air Ambulance Service was started in 1966 with a single Cessna 205 aircraft to provide a service for the transportation of critically ill and injured persons from the remote areas of South Africa. In 1971 the service acquired an additional aircraft, a Piper Aztec, nicknamed the "Spirit of Rotary I". The funding or this aircraft ...
On 1 July 1979, the South African Medical Corps (SAMC), until that time a Corps of the Army, became the South African Medical Service (SAMS), the fourth arm of the South African Defence Force (SADF). On 6 July 1979, 1 Field Ambulance was awarded the Freedom of the City of Durban and in this year also provided the Guard of Honour for the first ...
The 1 Field Ambulance SAMC (Tvl) (not to be confused with 1 SA Field Ambulance) was under command of Major J. Pratt-Jones, served in the First Great War and took part in the German South-West Africa Campaign, with the forces that operated from Luderitz under Gen Sir Duncan MacKenzie.
Aberdeen Provincial Hospital is a Provincial government funded hospital in Aberdeen, Eastern Cape in South Africa. The hospital departments include Emergency department, Maternity ward, O.P.D. Services, Surgical Services, Medical Services, Pharmacy, Anti-Retroviral (ARV) treatment for HIV/AIDS, Laundry and Kitchen Services.
The hospital was opened in 1967 and was called the J.G. Strijdom Hospital, named after J.G. Strijdom, a South African Prime Minister. [1]: 133 The hospital would be renamed 1 April 1997, after anti-apartheid activist Helen Joseph. [2] By 1985 it became an academic hospital, out-patient facilities and clinics.