Incidents at Robberg Nature Reserve:

A 45 year old female, from Gauteng, rescued at Robberg Nature Reserve on Monday, remains in a serious but stable condition in hospital.

Jaco Kruger, NSRI Plettenberg Bay station commander, said:

At 13h08, Monday, 28 April, NSRI Plettenberg Bay duty crew were activated following reports of a female collapsed unconscious - on the Wild Side, Robberg Nature Reserve, near to the Fountain Shack, on the East side.

Good Samaritan hikers, including a doctor, were assisting the lady at the scene and requested urgent medical assistance reporting her medical condition to be deteriorating from unknown causes.

Cape Nature rangers were heading towards them while NSRI Plettenberg Bay launched NSRI rescue craft and responded.

ER24 ambulance services and Med-Life ambulance services were activated.

On arrival on the scene, the female, age 45, from Douglasdale, Johannesburg, in a critical condition, was secured onto a stretcher and hiked to the NSRI rescue craft with medical care continuing.

Additional NSRI rescue craft, dispatching more NSRI rescue crew to the scene to assist, were launched.

Bystander Good Samaritan hikers assisted NSRI rescue crew to get the lady to our NSRI rescue craft and they are commended for the help they rendered.

Accompanied by her partner, in a critical medical condition, in the care of NSRI medics, the patient was brought to our NSRI Plettenberg Bay station 14 rescue base and transported to hospital by ER24 ambulance in the care of ER24 paramedics.

It remains unknown the causes for the lady collapsing unconscious and causes of  her severe medical condition appears to be unknown. Doctors and nurses are continuing with life saving efforts in hospital.

Thoughts and care remain with her partner, that was hiking with her at the time, and her family, in this difficult time.

On Monday, while this emergency medical operation was in progress, NSRI Plettenberg Bay and Cape Nature rangers were alerted to a lady injured nearby (to the initial incident), at The Gap, Robberg Nature Reserve.

With the serious rescue operation that was already in progress at the Fountain Shack, Cape Nature Rangers took that patient, that was at The Gap, into their care and they hiked her safely to the Robberg car park without incident. In a stable condition that patient attended further medical care privately.

As the NSRI rescue craft was departing The Wild Side, after the critical condition female patient had been secured onto the NSRI rescue craft, at the Robberg Nature Reserve hiking trail, NSRI were approached by a couple reporting that they were suffering dehydration and also in need of medical care. 

NSRI left them on the scene with additional hydration supplies, and with our NSRI rescue craft JetRIB and with NSRI rescue crew - caring for them, and the NSRI rescue craft then returned to fetch them later (after delivering the critical patient to paramedics at our rescue base).

The adult couple, believed to be from the Middle East, were taken onboard our NSRI rescue craft and they were brought to our NSRI rescue station where both of them, by that stage hydrated and both in good spirits, were released requiring no further assistance.