RACE INFO
3 AT THE FINISH VENUE
MEDICAL TENT
The medical facility at the finish venue will include critical care and laboratory facilities, manned by approximately 75 doctors and 20 nurses. There will also be a three-bed, fully equipped, ICU-type resuscitation area. This area will have a dedicated specialist emergency team to provide appropriate emergency care, if needed.
Please note: The medical facility is for runners only. Due to the large number of runners being treated and staff working in the tent, particularly during the last two hours of the race, we cannot allow relatives or friends into the tent. We just do not have enough space! They should go to the Information Tent in People’ s Park, from where they will be directed to the Medical Waiting Tent to wait for their runner, have some tea or coffee and receive updates as to the runner’ s condition and expected time of discharge.
FINISH LINE
There will be a small medical facility on the finish line. This will be staffed by an emergency care doctor and a paramedic. Its purpose is to be used as a primary emergency resuscitation area if a runner is in severe trouble at the finish, and needs care immediately, prior to transferring them to the medical tent.
LAST MILE AND ENTRANCE TO STADIUM
There will be an advanced life support paramedic stationed along or at the end of the Mile, to respond to calls about runners in that area who are in trouble before or as they approach or enter the finish area.
PHYSIO TENT AT FINISH
There is a fully-staffed Physio Tent with 40 beds at the finish venue. This will be situated in People’ s Park.
PUBLIC FIRST AID
Public First Aid will be provided by Netcare at the finish venue. It will be found in the vicinity of the Information Tent in People’ s Park.
4 HOSPITALS
Netcare St Augustine’ s and Umhlanga hospitals in Durban and Netcare St Anne’ s Hospital in Pietermaritzburg will be our primary referral hospitals, as in the past. Runners with medical aid will be charged at Medical Aid rates. Runners without medical aid will be treated free of charge for a maximum of 24 hours. This ONLY applies to runners transported by Netcare ambulance from the route or referred from the medical facility at the finish. It does not apply to runners who make their own way there after finishing the race.
If a runner has a serious medical problem that requires more than 24 hours of hospital care, and does not have medical aid, that runner may be transferred to a provincial hospital after 24 hours, at the discretion of the relevant hospital management.
We assure runners that the standard of medical care that has been provided by the Comrades Marathon over the years will not be compromised.
Runners who are unable to move forward under their own power should not be carried by other runners
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