Emergency management of drug abuse in South Africa:Drug abuse remains both a global scourge and a significant social and medical problem in South Africa

Abstract

Charl van Loggerenberg is currently involved in medical management for the world’s largest medical assistance and security services company – managing global medical evacuations and assistance, delivering remote-site medical services and consulting in Africa and further afield. He has previously been extensively involved in aviation medicine, management of flight services, and EMS and pre-hospital training. He is a part-time consultant in emergency medicine at the Wits Emergency Medicine Department, ATLS Director, occasional media spokesman, travel fanatic (will have covered the globe before retirement) and family man.