Bees attack elderly couple
A couple in their 70s from Strubenvale, was attacked by bees last Tuesday.
Catherine Dawes and her mother, Shirley, stopped at Albert and Anthea Schuttensack’s place in Veale Road to pick them up for bingo.
“I usually pick them up and drop them off, with my mother, at the SpringsCare Community Centre for bingo on the first Tuesday of the month,” says Catherine.
She saw Anthea waving away a bee and the next one, but to their shock Anthea’s head and neck were suddenly covered with bees.
Albert ran inside the house to fetch toilet spray, trying to assist his wife, but that must have aggrevated the bees more as they then attacked him as well.
Catherine says a woman stopped and she asked her to please call an ambulance.
“The woman drove off, but returned after a while to report the ambulance was on its way,” she adds.
Within five minutes the ambulance arrived, but they only had room for Albert, who suffers from asthma, and the Dawes had to take Anthea to hospital in their car.
Albert was immediately admitted to highcare at Parklands and his wife was admitted to ICU.
“We were lucky to escape a severe attack and were only stung a couple of times,” says Catherine who was also stung.
According to Parklands spokesman Marika van der Linde, the Schuttensack couple have been transferred to the medical ward and are doing well.
