A one-year-old girl is in a critical condition after a near drowning incident in Stilfontein, North West province.
ER24 paramedics were called to a medical practice suite where they found a doctor doing basic CPR on the young girl. Paramedics immediately assisted the doctor, providing the young patient with advanced life support interventions. After a lengthy resuscitation, the patient’s pulse returned.
Paramedics immediately stabilised the child before loading her into the ambulance. On route to a nearby hospital, paramedics provided the patient with breathing assistance.
The mother later told paramedics that she had come out of her house and noticed the child in a bucket of water. She (the mother) immediately grabbed the child and tried to wake her but failed.
She thereafter, hurried to the nearby doctors rooms for assistance.
ER24
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