Emergency workers are doing their best save a woman who was turned away from two state hospitals after being knocked over by a car in Sandton on Monday morning.

Nancy Turner said paramedics have been battling to have her domestic worker, Mavis Ncube, admitted to a state hospital.

"They tried to get through to the state hospitals to accept her and were told that the state hospitals are full and there are no beds available," explained the Turner.

Paramedics were turned away from both the Helen Joseph and Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital.

ER24's Werner Vermaak said paramedics decided to take the woman to the Morningside Clinic where she would be stabilised.

"Morningside Medi-Clinic has advised that we can bring the patient, it is just down the road from them, to their casualty where they will be able to assist us in stabilising this critically injured patient before we transfer her out to a provincial hospital," Vermaak said.

Doctors, who are on strike at state hospitals, are demanding a 50 percent across the board salary increase.

They have turned down the Health Ministry's offer of between 19 and 60 percent.

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