PLETTENBERG BAY NEWS - Yet another hiker was injured on the Robberg Nature Reserve hiking trail last week, following a spate of incidents in recent months.
A Cape Town teenager sustained a knee injury while hiking along the trail on Thursday, April 5.
Plettenberg Bay National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) deputy station commander Robbie Gibson said they received reports at about 13:30 of an 18-year-old having injured her knee while hiking with her family.
“A land rescue party responded to the Robberg Nature Reserve parking area and hiked to rendezvous with the casualty. The sea rescue craft Leonard Smith and Free Runner were also launched and NSRI crew were put ashore at Wildside and met up with the casualty who was being attended to by NSRI medics who had hiked to the location,” Gibson said.
He added the teenager was suspected to have strained ligaments in the right knee - possibly from a previous injury. Medics splinter the knee and assisted her to the sea rescue craft. The patient and her mother was transported to the NSRI rescue base and then taken to hospital by a Medlife ambulance.
“The patient was released later from hospital with a knee brace support.”
Two days earlier the duty crew was activated just after 15:30 following a request for assistance from a woman who was concerned over her 63-year-old mother from Centurion who was not feeling well during her hike.
The sea rescue craft Leonard Smith and Free Runner were launched and an NSRI shore crewman was dispatched to the Robberg parking area to hike to the two women on the trail.
Gibson said on arrival the patient showed early signs of heat exhaustion was assisted to West Beach where there the rescue craft had been waiting. She was transported to the NSRI base.
Her daughter hiked back to the car park accompanied by the NSRI crew and collected her mom at the base and took her to see a doctor for a check-up.
Monday April 2, the crew responded to reports of a 37-year- old Johannesburg man unable to continue his hike along the route after injuring his ankle while walking on the southern side of the trail near The Point. Yolande Stander
ARTICLE: YOLANDE STANDER, CORRESPONDENT
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