Our Group comprises Cape Medical Response (CMR), our emergency medical rapid response unit, and CMR Ambulance Services (CMRAS), our ambulance transportation unit.
Both CMR and CMRAS are on duty 24-hours a day, 365 days a year, and residents and businesses can become members by paying a low monthly membership fee.
Every year we treat in excess of four thousand emergency medical cases, and we are proud of our role in providing vital and life-saving medical services to our membership and the community we serve.
We started service with one 24-Hr paramedic response vehicle and David Behr as our only ALS. Our single office was in the Valyland Centre Office Block. Our operational area ran from Clovelly across to Noordhoek and South to Cape Point.
We moved to our new (and then spacious) office at 97a Kommetjie Road, Fish Hoek. We added a second response vehicle and a second ALS paramedic.
We continued to add resources and staff – and our future MD, Darren Zimmerman, joined us as a paramedic
We outgrew our premises at 97a Kommetjie Road, and moved to our current premises at 106 Kommetjie Road, Fish Hoek.
Our staff complement increased and a third response vehicle was added
We took delivery of our first ambulance, a gift from the Rotary Club of Claremont. We started offering our CMR members an Ambulance Transport option. We fitted our vehicles with tracking devices for the first time. We added a second ambulance to our growing fleet. Our operation area expanded to include Kalk Bay and Muizenberg.
We added a third ambulance to our fleet and continued to add more staff and resources.
We launched the CMR MyCard. Our operation area expanded to include Lakeside.
We became the first ambulance service to be registered under the Western Cape Ambulance Act.
Our 24-hr Control Centre became operational.
Our staff compliment increases above 40, and our fleet comprises four ambulances, four response vehicles, and two utility vehicles.
24-HR Medical emergencies: 082 782 4444 or 021 782 4444
Office: 021 782 0606
106 Kommetjie Road, Fish Hoek, 7975.