Good Samaritans try to save a man’s life
Community members drive dying man to hospital after passersby leave him for days. Unfortunately, the man passed away the next day.
There are still good Samaritans left in the world.
This was proved after community members banded together to try save a dying man’s life.
Windsor Community Support Services (WCSS) received word about a homeless man lying on the ground and shaking after not moving for at least one day prior.
This was on Queens Avenue, Windsor East, on the morning of April 14.
“People called an ambulance that apparently never came so we called another one,” said the non-profit organisation’s Mathabo Bekimbia-Tchoffo.
“We went there to help and saw to it that he was taken to hospital.”
Bekimbia-Tchoffo and Dee Harley said the man was covered by flies and passersby had left him alone for days.
Fortunately, residents and members of the organisation drove him to the hospital themselves.
Unfortunately, the man died at Helen Joseph Hospital the next day.
His name is known by Randburg Sun but will not be published until the organisation has succeeded in its mission to notify his family in Soweto.
“I was emotional after receiving the news of his death but relieved at the same time,” Bekimbia-Tchoffo said.
“I consoled myself that at least he died in the hospital under medical care and not on the pavement. I believe that Benji Changfoot and Pierre van Wyk were the chosen ones to at least assist him to die in a dignified place. WCSS is all about humanity, ubuntu and the community and we made it our mission to trace his family.”
Details: Mathabo Bekimbia-Tchoffo clm@wcss.org.za; call 082 686 0411, WhatsApp 072 140 5041.
