A TAFELSIG Neighbourhood Watch member used her emergency medical training to keep an elderly vrou alive after she was found unresponsive in her wheelchair on Friday morning.<\/p>\n
Petronella Sauls told the Daily Voice that when she received a call from her Neighbourhood Watch chairperson, she knew she had to do everything possible to save the woman\u2019s life.<\/p>\n
Sauls said: \u201cI was called by my chairperson to the scene, and the lady was unresponsive since 5am, according to the other people who were staying in the house with her.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust before 7am, we were called to the scene. When I arrived along with my partner, we found her unconscious, but still breathing, and she was sitting in a wheelchair, and as I tried to wake her up.\u201d<\/p>\n
At that moment, Sauls said her only focus was to keep the elderly woman alive until emergency services arrived.<\/p>\n
Sauls added: \u201cI had to keep her alive until emergency services arrived, and I did so with the skills that I have and what I received from the City of Cape Town\u2019s Emergency First Aid Responder (EFAR) training.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were times that I thought I lost her, but with the emergency training, I got her back. I literally kept her alive till emergency services came.\u201d<\/p>\n
She explained that it was a long process as the patient\u2019s airway was blocked and she had to clear it, while also checking the woman\u2019s sugar levels after learning she was diabetic.<\/p>\n
Sauls explained: \u201cThere were times when I called her name, but she didn\u2019t answer, but she was still breathing, and that was a win for me. She was totally cold from head to toe, but we slowly got her back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emergency services later arrived at the scene and transported the woman to a nearby medical facility.<\/p>\n
Reflecting on the ordeal, Sauls said: \u201cGod opened my mind to allow me to do what I needed to do.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe as NHW are more than crime fighters, and this is what it is all about, it’s about what we can do for the community, and I hope people will see the positive side to what we do because we are also trained in other things.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A TAFELSIG Neighbourhood Watch member used her emergency medical training to keep an elderly vrou alive after she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[85756,4861,4365,85758,3097,11995,8610,64973,85757,85755,131,3129],"class_list":{"0":"post-162813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-a-tafelsig-east-neighbourhood-watch","9":"tag-city-of-cape-town","10":"tag-daily-voice","11":"tag-efar","12":"tag-god","13":"tag-member","14":"tag-neighbourhood-watch","15":"tag-nhw","16":"tag-ouma","17":"tag-petronella-sauls","18":"tag-south-africa","19":"tag-tafelsig"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/116321538747829262","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}