The 60-year old Ian Paterson from Edinburgh in Scotland is being treated at Mediclinic Hospital in the Free State capital. Hospital spokesperson, Mia Alberts, tells OFM News Paterson is in a stable condition in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU). She says he will be undergoing surgery today, January 5, to correct fractures in his left arm.

Paterson and a second unknown British middle-aged man were left in critical conditions when the glider they were travelling in crashed near Swanepoel street in the city on the afternoon of Friday, January 4. The two British men were trapped in the wreckage and had to be freed by personnel on the ground. 

The pair received “advanced life support interventions” says ER24’s Russel Meiring, with one being transported to a nearby private hospital by helicopter and the other by ambulance. Alberts confirms that only Paterson is at Mediclinic. It has been reported the second of the two men is being treated at Life Rosepark Hospital, the hospital is yet to respond to OFM News enquiries on his condition. 

The Mediclinic spokesperson says that a friend of Paterson is at the hospital.

The South African Civil Aviation Authority is reportedly investigating the accident. It is unknown at this stage what caused the accident.

OFM News