Paramedic goes out of his way to help injured Review journalist
Tebogo Raphela says random acts of kindness are part of who he is and he would offer a helping hand even if it had been anyone else.
POLOKWANE – Early morning on 27 July, one of Review’s journalists was involved in a car accident on the way to a story. She was injured and stuck in her car before paramedics arrived on the scene to help her out and into an ambulance.
Two minutes into being checked for injuries, she noted that she had left her cellphone and other belongings in the car and when someone was sent to look for them, they were nowhere to be found. These items included the journalist’s cellphone, bank cards and cash to the sum of R1 500.
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During the whole ordeal, the paramedics on duty were from Protoscape Ambulance Service. One of the paramedics on duty was Leboka Tebogo Raphaela, who went out of his way to ensure the comfortability of the journalist.
Tebogo offered his cellphone to the patient to call her family and colleagues and when the journalist realized she did not know her colleagues numbers off by heart, the next option was sending an inbox message to the Polokwane Review-Bonus Facebook page, to which he gladly offered his Facebook account. This might not seem like a lot but when you’re stranded with no contact to the outside world, a simple Facebook inbox goes a long way.
Tebogo says acts of kindness are a part of who he is and he would have offered a helping hand even if it had been anyone else. “This is just the kind of person I am, I am a paramedic to help people in need.”
He says he truly enjoys being able to save peoples’ lives and in this case, their careers as well.
Review would like to send a message of gratitude to Tebogo for going above and beyond his responsibilities to ensure that the message of the incident was received in time to send another journalist to the story.
