The past few years has seen VEMA grow through skills development and more members with specific skills.
Call-volumes and call types have remained more or less constant with an average of 65 calls per month, mixed in nature – about 60% trauma and 40% medical.
The High Angle team became autonomous in 2016 and has since joined the START group as a specialist rescue team within .
Tim Hardcastle, the voluntary Medical Director, is been involved in community education through the RIMS committee and was promoted to Honorary Research Professor at DUT in emergency services in 2019, as well as Honorary Professor of Surgery at UKZN.
Massimo Galazzi is the Operations Manager. Our other members include: Matthew and Andrew Richardson, a father and son team; Lyn and Shirley from Emergency Care Education are the two ALS paramedics and Warren Brauns, Shannon Charles and Lee Bryant (Metro Police Rescue expert) are the other members. Jonathan Hardcastle is a Disaster Management Technician and is an Honorary Member and additional “Rescue Officer”, being a qualified Fire-Fighter/Rescue tech.
