MIDDELBURG 21 October 2011, 16:00
A 3 year old boy nearly drowned in a swimming pool this afternoon.
ER24 paramedics received a call that a child has fallen into a pool in the suburb of Kanonkop and had become unresponsive. The mother of the child had allegedly noticed her son floating in the pool and pulled the child from the water. She immediately started administering CPR on her son.
When ER24 paramedics arrived at the scene the Provincial Emergency Medical Services had already taken over resuscitation efforts from the traumatised mother. Trough teamwork and with the use of Advanced Life Support treatment the child’s pulse returned after multiple minutes of CPR.
The child was then rapidly transported to the Life Midmed hospital for further medical care.
Andre Visser, ER24