About 20 people were taken to hospital after suspected gas leak at a business in Elandsfontein east of Johannesburg on Thursday.
Private ambulance services EMER-G-MED and Netcare911 were dispatched to the business just after 10am and found at least 20 workers with varying degrees of illness and injury.
“It’s believed that there was a gas leak in the building‚ which was inhaled by the workers‚” EMER-G-MED said in a statement.
“Paramedics worked on the scene to triage and stabilise the patients‚ before they were rapidly transported to various nearby hospitals for further management — some of them under advanced life support care.”
Local authorities were investigating the source of the gas leak.
20 rushed to hospital after Joburg gas leak
About 20 people were taken to hospital after suspected gas leak at a business in Elandsfontein east of Johannesburg on Thursday.
Private ambulance services EMER-G-MED and Netcare911 were dispatched to the business just after 10am and found at least 20 workers with varying degrees of illness and injury.
“It’s believed that there was a gas leak in the building‚ which was inhaled by the workers‚” EMER-G-MED said in a statement.
“Paramedics worked on the scene to triage and stabilise the patients‚ before they were rapidly transported to various nearby hospitals for further management — some of them under advanced life support care.”
Local authorities were investigating the source of the gas leak.