ANOTHER dog-biting incident, this time in Gordon Road, Windermere, has occurred. Paramedics responded to numerous calls of a dog-biting incident outside a school this morning (November 28). Paramedics arrived on the scene to find the SAPS, who had closed the road. Paramedics quickly attended to a man believed to be in his 40s who had sustained multiple serious injuries to his body. He had been bitten multiple times by a pit bull.
This is according to Advanced Life Support Paramedics (ALS) who worked to stabilise the man at the scene before they rushed him to a nearby hospital for the urgent care that he required.
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Paramedics also treated and transported a young child as a result of the incident.
“It is alleged that a lady and child were walking towards the school when the pit bull ran out of a nearby house and was about to bite the child. The man, a worker from the school, shielded the child from the dog, thus possibly saving her life,” reports Garrith Jamieson, spokesperson of ALS Paramedics.
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SAPS dealt with the dog and will be investigating further.
Today’s incident comes just seven days after two people were left in critical and serious condition respectively following a dog-biting incident in Parkhill, Durban North. On Sunday, a three-year-old boy sustained multiple injuries after he was allegedly bitten by a dog in Watsonia Road on The Bluff.
On November 15, Wendy Nana (31) of The Bluff and three-year-old Sinoyolo Hlanjwa were also bitten by a dog on Boshoff Street, also on The Bluff.
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