An elderly man has being injured after falling into an electric fence inside the property of the old age home where he is staying this afternoon in Pietermaritzburg.
ER24 paramedics and the provincial ambulance service arrived on the scene and found the man lying near the fence in a very confused stated. He had also suffered multiple lacerations and abrasions. Advanced Life Support intervention was performed on the patient. There was no obvious burn marks on the patient that paramedics could see. The patient was placed on a specialised board before being transported to Northdale Hospital in a serious but stable condition.
It is believed that the elderly man was doing his normal afternoon walk in the garden and was picking up avocados from the ground when he slipped and rolled down the embankment into the electric fence. While tumbling down the man sustained lacerations and abrasions to his body.
Derrick Banks
ER24